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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454772103321

Titolo

After sovereignty : on the question of political beginnings / / edited by Charles Barbour and George Pavlich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-134-00900-3

1-299-14011-4

1-282-31508-0

9786612315084

0-203-88082-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BarbourCharles A. <1969->

PavlichGeorge

Disciplina

320.1

Soggetti

Sovereignty - Philosophy

International law

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; After Sovereignty; Title Page; Copyight Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Leveraging Leviathan; 2 On the subject of sovereigns; 3 Sovereignty after sovereignty; 4 Sovereignty without sovereignty: Derrida's Declarations of Independence; 5 Freedom after the law: Arendt and Nancy's concept of 'The Political'; 6 Exception and event: Schmitt, Arendt, and Badiou; 7 Rival jurisdictions: the promise and loss of sovereignty; 8 After sovereignty: spectres of colonialism; 9 What comes after sovereignty?; 10 Polymorphous sovereignty

11 Giorgio Agamben: thought between two revolutions12 Walter Benjamin, sovereignty and the eschatology of power; Index

Sommario/riassunto

After Sovereignty addresses the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social, political, and legal theory. The emergence, and now apparent implosion, of international capital exceeding the borders of known political entities, the continued expansion of a potentially endless 'War on Terror', the often predicted, but still uncertain,



establishment of either a new international American Empire or a new era of International Law, the proliferation of social and political struggles among stateless refugees, migrant workers, and partial citizens, the resurgence of religion as a do