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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barbour, Charles, 1969-

Pavlich, George, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty--Philosophy.

Sovereignty.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

vi, 203 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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 dominant source of political identification among people all over the globe-these developments and others have thrown into crisis the modern concept of sovereignty, and the notions of statehood and citizenship that rest upon it.

Drawing on classical sources and more contemporary speculations, and developing a range of arguments concerning the possibility of political beginnings in the current moment, the papers collected in After Sovereignty contribute to a renewed interest in the problem of sovereignty in theoretical and political debate. They also provide a multitude of resources for the urgent, if necessarily fractured and diffuse, effort to reconfigure sovereignty today. Whilst it has regularly been suggested that the sovereignty of the nation-state is in crisis, the exact reasons for, and exact implications of, this crisis have rarely been so intensively examined.

Contents:

1 Leveraging Leviathan / Peter Fitzpatrick 12

2 On the subject of sovereigns / George Pavlich 22

3 Sovereignty after sovereignty / Richard Joyce 37

4 Sovereignty without sovereignty: Derrida's Declarations of Independence / Jacques De Ville 54

5 Freedom after the law: Arendt and Nancy's concept of 'The Political' / Catherine Kellogg 68

6 Exception and event: Schmitt, Arendt, and Badiou / Charles Barbour 83

7 Rival jurisdictions: the promise and loss of sovereignty / Shaun Mcveigh, Sundhya Pahuja 97

8 After sovereignty: spectres of colonialism / Bryan Hogeveen 115

9 What comes after sovereignty? / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 130

10 Polymorphous sovereignty / Stephen Humphreys 146

11 Giorgio Agamben: thought between two revolutions / Amy Swiffen 166

12 Walter Benjamin, sovereignty and the eschatology of power / James Martel 180.

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415490413

9780415490412

020388082X

9780203880821

OCLC:

428895793