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Sovereignty and its Discontents On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political
By William Rasch
Copyright 2004
168 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
168 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
166 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
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This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'.
The notion of the political expounded here is explicitly 'realist' and anti-utopian - in large part because... Read more
Part 1 - Politics as Conflict: Conflict as a Vocation: Schmitt, Lyotard, Luhmann; A Just War? Or Just a War? Schmitt vs Habermas; So You Say You Want a Revolution: Brecht vs Brecht.Part 2 - Sovereignty and Original Sin: Guilt as Religion: Benjamin; From Sovereign Ban to Banning Sovereignty: Agamben; Persistent Sovereignty: Hardt and Negri. Part 3 - Even Unto the End of the World: 'For There is no Difference Between the Jew and the Greek': The Legacy of St Paul; Human Rights as Geopolitics: From Vitoria to Rawls.
Biography
William Rasch Professor of Germanic Studies, Indiana University
