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Sovereignty and Liberty - A Study of the Foundations of Power (Hardcover, New)
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Sovereignty and Liberty - A Study of the Foundations of Power (Hardcover, New)
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The attitude we take to power is almost invariably one of distrust,
never more so than when it claims to be sovereign. And yet, we have
always been drawn to sovereignty. Out of fear or fascination, we
accepted that it was a condition of our liberty; that to assert
ourselves as free, we would have to work not against but through
sovereign power. This book retraces the history of the implication
of sovereignty and liberty, an implication that has shaped the way
we live together, as individuals and as political beings. Shedding
new light on the work of key political and constitutional thinkers,
including Marsilius of Padua, Hobbes, Hegel, Kelsen, and Schmitt,
it identifies the conceptual operations that created sovereignty
and shows how subjection to an absolute and undivided power came to
be a source of meaning. At the heart of the analysis is the idea
that sovereignty made reference to and relied upon a form of faith
which aligned man's political existence on law. Offering new and
often controversial insights into the grounds of our attachment to
sovereign power and into the crisis that is currently affecting its
institutions, this book will appeal to students and scholars of
law, politics, history of philosophy, and the social sciences.
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