Sovereignty and its discontents : on the primacy of conflict and the structure of the political /
In contrast to many attempts to rethink the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, this text argues of the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political, as well as for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over "peace."
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| Language: | English |
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London : Portland, Or. :
Birkbeck Law ; Cavendish Pub.,
2004
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| Series: | Birkbeck Law Press.
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction the primacy of the political; 1 Conflict as a vocation Schmitt Lyotard Luhmann; 2 A just war Or just a war Schmitt vs Habermas; 3 So you say you want a revolution Brecht vs Brecht; 4 Guilt as religion Benjamin; 5 From sovereign ban to banning sovereignty Agamben; 6 Persistent sovereignty Hardt and Negri; 7 'For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek': the legacy of St Paul; 8 Human rights as geopolitics from Vitoria to Rawls; Bibliography; Index.
