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A Critique of Sovereignty

A Critique of Sovereignty

Markus Hardtmann
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In this important new book, Daniel Loick argues that in order to become sensible to the violence imbedded in our political routines, philosophy must question the current forms of political community the ways in which it organizes and executes its decisions, in which it creates and interprets its laws much more radically than before. It must become a critical theory of sovereignty and in doing so eliminate coercion from the law. The book opens with a historical reconstruction of the concept of sovereignty in Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant. Loick applies Adorno and Horkheimer s notion of a dialectic of Enlightenment to the political sphere, demonstrating that whenever humanity deemed itself progressing from chaos and despotism, it at the same time prolonged exactly the violent forms of interaction it wanted to rid itself from. He goes on to assemble critical theories of sovereignty, using Walter Benjamin s distinction between law-positing and law-preserving violence as a terminological source, engaging with Marx, Arendt, Foucault, Agamben and Derrida, and adding several other dimensions of violence in order to draw a more complete picture. Finally, Loick proposes the idea of non-coercive law as a consequence of a critical theory of sovereignty."
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
Release
August 16, 2017
ISBN
1786600382
ISBN 13
9781786600387

A Critique of Sovereignty

Markus Hardtmann
3/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In this important new book, Daniel Loick argues that in order to become sensible to the violence imbedded in our political routines, philosophy must question the current forms of political community the ways in which it organizes and executes its decisions, in which it creates and interprets its laws much more radically than before. It must become a critical theory of sovereignty and in doing so eliminate coercion from the law. The book opens with a historical reconstruction of the concept of sovereignty in Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant. Loick applies Adorno and Horkheimer s notion of a dialectic of Enlightenment to the political sphere, demonstrating that whenever humanity deemed itself progressing from chaos and despotism, it at the same time prolonged exactly the violent forms of interaction it wanted to rid itself from. He goes on to assemble critical theories of sovereignty, using Walter Benjamin s distinction between law-positing and law-preserving violence as a terminological source, engaging with Marx, Arendt, Foucault, Agamben and Derrida, and adding several other dimensions of violence in order to draw a more complete picture. Finally, Loick proposes the idea of non-coercive law as a consequence of a critical theory of sovereignty."
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
Release
August 16, 2017
ISBN
1786600382
ISBN 13
9781786600387

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