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A Critique of Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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A Critique of Sovereignty (Hardcover)
Series: Reinventing Critical Theory
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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. The translation of this work was
funded by Geisteswissenschaften International - Translation Funding
for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative
of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office,
the collecting society VG WORT and the Boersenverein des Deutschen
Buchhandels (German Publisher & Booksellers Association)
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