Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 222 g
Sovereignty, Law, and Violence
Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 222 g
ISBN: 978-1-4051-6313-2
Verlag: Wiley
The essays in this volume take on the challenge of explaining the current formation of the relation between sovereignty, law and violence in what is termed ‘Democracy’s Empire’.
- Contains a situated discussion of the institution of democracy and related
juridico-political problems
- Examines the historical and philosophical legacies which inform Democracy’s Empire – such as the Roman Republic, the separation between Church and State in the enlightenment, formations of revolutionary violence, and the relation between norm and exception
- Poses the problem of violence and death at the heart of the institution of democracy including examples such as South Africa and Iraq
- Offers a mixture of historical and philosophical treatment of democracy as a juridical problem of constitutional violence
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Weitere Infos & Material
1. Democracy's Empire: Sovereignty, Law and Violence (Stewart Motha).
2. Church, State, Resistance (Jean-Luc Nancy).
3. Constitutional Violence (David Bates).
4. Sovereignty, Exception, and Norm (Andrew Norris).
5. Undoing Legal Violence: Walter Benjamin’s and Giorgio Agamben’s Aesthetics of Pure Means (Benjamin Morgan).
6. The Normality of the Exception in Democracy’s Empire (Peter Fitzpatrick and Richard Joyce).
7. Post-Apartheid Social Movements and the Quest for the Elusive 'New' South Africa (Tshepo Madlingozi).
8. The Violence of Non-Violence: Law and War in Iraq (Samera Esmeir).
9. Performing Power: The Deal, Corporate Rule, and the Constitution of Global Legal Order (Fleur Johns).
10. Veiled Women and the Affect of Religion in Democracy (Stewart Motha)
