The State of Sovereignty : Lessons from the Political Fictions of Modernity.

The State Of Sovereignty: Lessons from the Political Fiction of Modernity -- The State Of Sovereignty: Lessons from the Political Fiction of Modernity -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Vase of Soissons and the Lessons of Sovereignty -- The Noble Thesis and the Ends of Pagan Sovereignty -- Where Sovereignty Lies Today -- Chapter One: Rousseau and the Right of Life and Death over the Body Politic -- The State of Sovereignty after the Social Contract -- Contracting the Sovereign -- Lessons from "L'artifice et le jeu" of Sovereignty -- Men and Citizens, Life and Death -- The Sovereign Pardon -- Chapter Two: Arendt's Archaeology of Sovereignty -- The Fragmented Past and The Future of the Political -- Beginning Again: The Arche of the Political -- Finding a Home in the Political -- Chapter Three: "The World is at Stake": Sovereignty and the Right to Have Rights -- Sovereign Totalitarianism -- The Rise of the Nation-State -- Policing the State -- The Right to Have Rights -- Chapter Four: Torturing Sovereignty: Foucault's Regicide in Theory -- Genealogies in the Multiple -- Sovereign Madness -- Histories of the State of Sovereignty -- The Rise of the Nation-State -- Bio-political Sovereignty -- Foucault, Schmitt, and "the King Who Rules but Does not Govern" -- Beyond the Sovereign Decision -- Sovereign Freedom, or Freedom from Sovereignty -- Chapter Five: What More Is There to Say?: Agamben and the Hyperbole of Sovereignty -- The Sacrifice of History -- Homo Sacer: The Significance of Words -- From Homo Sacer to Vir Sacer -- The Glory of Another Sovereignty -- Sovereign Relations -- Last Words: The Language of Sovereignty and Noo-Politics -- The Hyperbole that Remains -- Chapter Six: Derrida and the Limits of Sovereignty's Reason: Freedom, Equality, but Not Fraternity -- Le Très Haut of Mount Moriah.

Freedom, Equality, but Not Fraternity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Considers the problems of sovereignty through the work of Rousseau, Arendt, Foucault, Agamben, and Derrida.

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