Critique of sovereignty, A
Sovereignty Critical theory
Rowman & Littlefield International
2018
EISBN 9781786600400
Traditional theories of sovereignty. Order and orientation: primitive usurpation (Jean Bodin).
Binding and blinding: the rhetorics of obligation (Thomas Hobbes).
Divide and conquer: autonomy as heteronomy (Jean-Jacques Rousseau).
Internalize and internationalize: subordinate sovereignty (Immanuel Kant).
Interim conclusion: ironies of the political.
Critical theories of sovereignty. The critique of law-positing violence (Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt).
The critique of law-preserving violence (Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault).
The critique of law-withholding violence (Giorgio Agamben).
The critique of law-interpreting violence (Robert Cover and Jacques Derrida).
The critique of law-splitting violence (Feminist critique of sovereignty).
Critical theory without sovereignty. Law without coercion (Hermann Cohen).
Commandment without the state (Franz Rosenzweig).
Participation and dissidence: consequences of a critical theory of/without sovereignty.
Binding and blinding: the rhetorics of obligation (Thomas Hobbes).
Divide and conquer: autonomy as heteronomy (Jean-Jacques Rousseau).
Internalize and internationalize: subordinate sovereignty (Immanuel Kant).
Interim conclusion: ironies of the political.
Critical theories of sovereignty. The critique of law-positing violence (Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt).
The critique of law-preserving violence (Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault).
The critique of law-withholding violence (Giorgio Agamben).
The critique of law-interpreting violence (Robert Cover and Jacques Derrida).
The critique of law-splitting violence (Feminist critique of sovereignty).
Critical theory without sovereignty. Law without coercion (Hermann Cohen).
Commandment without the state (Franz Rosenzweig).
Participation and dissidence: consequences of a critical theory of/without sovereignty.
