Captives of Sovereignty.

This book questions the theoretical assumptions of sovereignty and offers new ways to move the critiques of this subject forward.

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Tác giả chính: Havercroft, Jonathan
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=399357
Mục lục:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; 1 A picture holds us captive; Introduction; The normative critique of sovereignty; Arendt; Foucault; Agamben; Hardt and Negri; The limitations of the normative critique of sovereignty; The architectonic critique of sovereignty; The world state; Neo-feudalism; State-centric; The persistence of sovereignty; Conclusion; 2 Sovereignty, judgment, and epistemic skepticism; Skepticism; Epistemological skepticism in Hobbes and Spinoza; Spinoza; Hobbes; Skepticism and sovereignty; 3 Sovereignty, language, and ethical skepticism.
  • Hobbes and the struggle against paradiastoleSpinoza; Conclusion; 4 Sovereignty, religious skepticism, and the theological-political problem; Hobbes on sovereignty and ecclesiastical authority; Debates over worship; Meaning of scripture; Miracles; Ecclesiastical power; Spinoza, skepticism, superstition, and sovereignty; Conclusion; Part II; Introduction to Part II; 5 Political authority and skepticism; Introduction; How skepticism constitutes sovereignty; The authority of the "human group as such"; Conclusion; 6 Authority, criteria, and the new social contract; Certainty without sovereignty.
  • The limits of popular sovereigntyPopular sovereignty as procedure; Conclusion; 7 The claim of global community; Skepticism and the security dilemma; Skepticism and the other minds problem; International ethics; Conclusion; Conclusion: authority without supremacy, community with contestation; Another world is present; Community with contestation; Authority without supremacy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.