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Autore |
Rasch William <1949-, > |
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Titolo |
Sovereignty and its discontents : on the primacy of conflict and the structure of the political / / William Rasch |
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London : , : Birkbeck Law |
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Portland, Or. : , : Cavendish Pub., , 2004 |
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1-281-32589-9 |
9786611325893 |
1-135-32706-8 |
1-84314-599-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (157 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Opposition (Political science) |
Sovereignty |
Social conflict |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-156) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Sovereigenty and Its Discontents; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: the primacy of the political; Part 1: Politics as Conflict; 1. Conflict as a vocation: Schmitt, Lyotard, Luhmann; 2. A just war? Or just a war? Schmitt vs Habermas; 3. So you say you want a revolution: Brecht vs Brecht; Part 2: Sovereignty and Original Sin; 4. Guilt as religion: Benjamin; 5. From sovereign ban to banning sovereignty: Agamben; 6. Persistent sovereignty: Hardt and Negri; Part 3: Even Unto the End of the World ... |
7. 'For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek': the legacy of St Paul8. Human rights as geopolitics: from Vitoria to Rawls; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'.The notion of the political expounded here is explicitly 'realist' and anti- |
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