Book/Printed Material Critique of Sovereignty
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Title
- Critique of Sovereignty
Summary
- Using 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.
Names
- Lombardo, Marc, author.
Created / Published
- Brooklyn, NY : punctum books, 2015.
Contents
- Book 1: Contemporary Theories of Sovereignty.
Headings
- - Sovereignty--Philosophy
Notes
- - Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-92).
- - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page Oapen, viewed June 19, 2020).
Medium
- 1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number/Physical Location
- JC327
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2020394812
Rights Advisory
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode External
Access Advisory
- Unrestricted online access
Online Format
- image