The State of Sovereignty
Lessons from the Political Fictions of Modernity
1st Edition
Published on 30. May 2012
299 pages
978-1-4384-3786-6 (ISBN)
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Considers the problems of sovereignty through the work of Rousseau, Arendt, Foucault, Agamben, and Derrida.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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978-1-4384-3786-6 (9781438437866)
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Peter Gratton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the coeditor (with John Panteleimon Manoussakis) of Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Vase of Soissons and the Lessons of Sovereignty
The Noble Thesis and the Ends of Pagan Sovereignty
Where Sovereignty Lies Today
1. Rousseau and the Right of Life and Death over the Body Politic
The State of Sovereignty after the Social Contract
Contracting the Sovereign
Lessons from "L'artifice et le jeu" of Sovereignty
Men and Citizens, Life and Death
The Sovereign Pardon
2. Arendt's Archaeology of Sovereignty
The Fragmented Past and The Future of the Political
Beginning Again: The Arche of the Political
Finding a Home in the Political
3. "The World is at Stake": Sovereignty and the Right to Have Rights
Sovereign Totalitarianism
The Rise of the Nation-State
Policing the State
4. Torturing Sovereignty: Foucault's Regicide in Theory
Genealogies in the Multiple
Sovereign Madness
Histories of the State of Sovereignty
The Rise of the Nation-State
Bio-political Sovereignty
Foucault, Schmitt, and "the King Who Rules but Does not Govern"
Beyond the Sovereign Decision
Sovereign Freedom, or Freedom from Sovereignty
5. What More Is There to Say? Agamben and the Hyperbole of Sovereignty
The Sacrifice of History
Homo Sacer: The Significance of Words
From Homo Sacer to Vir Sacer
The Glory of Another Sovereignty
Sovereign Relations
Last Words: The Language of Sovereignty and Noo-Politics
The Hyperbole that Remains
6. Derrida and the Limits of Sovereignty's Reason: Freedom, Equality, but Not Fraternity
Le Tres Haut of Mount Moriah
Freedom, Equality, but Not Fraternity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
The Vase of Soissons and the Lessons of Sovereignty
The Noble Thesis and the Ends of Pagan Sovereignty
Where Sovereignty Lies Today
1. Rousseau and the Right of Life and Death over the Body Politic
The State of Sovereignty after the Social Contract
Contracting the Sovereign
Lessons from "L'artifice et le jeu" of Sovereignty
Men and Citizens, Life and Death
The Sovereign Pardon
2. Arendt's Archaeology of Sovereignty
The Fragmented Past and The Future of the Political
Beginning Again: The Arche of the Political
Finding a Home in the Political
3. "The World is at Stake": Sovereignty and the Right to Have Rights
Sovereign Totalitarianism
The Rise of the Nation-State
Policing the State
4. Torturing Sovereignty: Foucault's Regicide in Theory
Genealogies in the Multiple
Sovereign Madness
Histories of the State of Sovereignty
The Rise of the Nation-State
Bio-political Sovereignty
Foucault, Schmitt, and "the King Who Rules but Does not Govern"
Beyond the Sovereign Decision
Sovereign Freedom, or Freedom from Sovereignty
5. What More Is There to Say? Agamben and the Hyperbole of Sovereignty
The Sacrifice of History
Homo Sacer: The Significance of Words
From Homo Sacer to Vir Sacer
The Glory of Another Sovereignty
Sovereign Relations
Last Words: The Language of Sovereignty and Noo-Politics
The Hyperbole that Remains
6. Derrida and the Limits of Sovereignty's Reason: Freedom, Equality, but Not Fraternity
Le Tres Haut of Mount Moriah
Freedom, Equality, but Not Fraternity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
