Sovereignty and Its Other : Toward the Dejustification of Violence.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Preamble, or Power and Its Relations -- 1 Judgment and Justification -- Justification or Judgment? -- Sovereign Discomfort: The Immediacy of Justification -- Dejustification, or the Historicization of the Trinity of Justification -- Democratic Judgment, or the Exigency of Participation -- An Other Narrative: On Method -- 2 The Vicissitude of Participation: On Ancient Sovereignty -- War and the State: On the Foundation and Perpetuation of the Polis in Thucydides -- Self-sufficiency: Pericles's "Funeral Oration," -- "Invincible Eros" in Sophocles's Antigone: For the Love of Democracy -- Universal Agape in Christian Sovereignty: Augustine's City of God -- 3 The Propinquity of Nature: Absolute Sovereignty -- The Subject of Psychology and the Law: Machiavelli and Bodin -- Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself: Hobbes's Artificialities -- There Must Be Madmen. . . . The Absoluteness of the Sovereign in the Leviathan -- Melancholia as Dejustification: Hamlet's Anti-absolutism -- 4 Revolution and the Power of Living: Popular Sovereignty -- "The Sovereign Is Always What It Should Be": Rousseau's Perpetual Revolution -- The Other of Obedience: Spinoza's Dejustification of Sovereignty -- The Regime of Broken Promises: The Possibility of Democracy -- The Paroxysm of the Aleatory: Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas -- 5 Democracy and Its Other: Biopolitical Sovereignty -- Normalizing the Exception -- The Unsavables: Marx's Wager -- Acts of Democracy: The Primacy of the Effect in Foucault's Theory of Power -- The Unexceptional: Coetzee's Michael K. and Resistance -- Epilogue: A Relational Ontology of the Political -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

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