LEADER 03469oam 22004694a 450 001 9910137165003321 005 20210915045941.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000534153 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001669420 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16460994 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001669420 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15003968 035 $a(PQKB)10877083 035 $a(OCoLC)1100490774 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87153 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000534153 100 $a20200619d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCritique of Sovereignty, Book 1: Contemporary Theories of Sovereignty$fMarc Lombardo 210 1$aBrooklyn, NY :$cpunctum books,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015. 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 92 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$aPrint version: 0692282408 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 89-92). 327 $aBook 1: Contemporary Theories of Sovereignty. 330 $aUsing the Western tradition of metaphysical and political thought as a backdrop, Critique of Sovereignty (a work in 4 volumes) re-examines the concept of sovereignty in order to better understand why our ethical values and technical capacities often seem so divorced from our lived realities. On the one hand, ostensibly self-enclosed entities like the nation-state and the person are rhetorically bolstered as sites of technical agency and/or moral responsibility. On the other hand, these same entities appear fragile -- if not purely fictional -- in relation to ever ongoing tidal processes such as the migration, diffusion, and conglomeration of bodies, capital, ideas, etc. While some of our institutions might work some of the time, they always seem to work differently than we like to think they do. Accordingly, the forging of more humane institutions might very well entail if not require ways of thinking that strive to undo the self-imagined binds, exceptions, and sureties of thought for the sake of embracing a continuity with all that withers, decays, and falls away. Book I, "Contemporary Theories of Sovereignty," compares the varied interpretations of sovereignty given by a range of 20th-century political theorists (Maritain, Foucault, Derrida, Schmitt, Agamben, Hardt, and Negri) with Jean Bodin's initial outline of the concept, rendered at the outset of modern political thought in the 16th century. The analytic framework of sovereignty encountered in these comparative readings provides an initial point of departure for unfolding a method of critique appropriate to the concept of sovereignty. Sovereignty is an ideal starting point for a critique of the deadlocks between thought and reality for a simple reason: it doesn't actually exist. When it serves as a guide to action, sovereignty may be regarded as a particularly captivating fantasy. The closer it appears, the further it recedes, and, too often, the more vigorously it is pursued. 606 $aSovereignty$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSovereignty$xPhilosophy. 700 $aLombardo$b Marc$0959639 712 02$aProject Muse, 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910137165003321 996 $aCritique of sovereignty$92174789 997 $aUNINA