1st Edition

After Sovereignty On the Question of Political Beginnings

Edited By Charles Barbour, George Pavlich Copyright 2010
212 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

212 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

216 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

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... Read more

Introduction, George Pavlich and Charles Barbour 1. Leveraging Leviathan, Peter Fitzpatrick  2. On the Subject of Sovereigns, George Pavlich  3. Sovereignty After Sovereignty, Richard Joyce  4. Sovereignty without Sovereignty: Derrida’s Declarations of Independence, Jacques De Ville  5. Freedom After the Law: Arendt and Nancy’s Concept of ‘The Political’, Catherine Kellogg  6. Exception and Event: Schmitt, Arendt, and Badiou, Charles Barbour  7. Rival Jurisdictions: The Promise and Loss of Sovereignty, Shaun McVeigh and Sundhya Pahuja  8. After Sovereignty: Spectres of Colonialism, Bryan Hogeveen  9. What Comes After Sovereignty, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera  10. Polymorphous Sovereignty, Stephen Humphreys  11. Giorgio Agamben: Thought Between Two Revolutions, Amy Swiffen  12. Walter Benjamin, Eschatology and the Sovereignty of Power, James Martel  

Biography

Charles Barbour is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney.

George Pavlich is a Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Alberta.