Index. Series editors' foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Derrida on the 'slow and differentiated' deconstruction of sovereignty / James Martel -- 1. The Book of Lord Shang on the origins of the state / Yuri Pines -- 2. Aristotle on sovereignty / Kazutaka Inamura -- 3. Divided sovereignty : Polybius and the compound constitution / Jed W. Atkins and Carl E. Young -- 4. Reading sovereignty in Augustus' Res gestae / Dean Hammer -- 5. Al-Farabi : the sovereignty of the philosopher king / Massimo Campanini -- 6. Marsilius of Padua on sovereignty / Vasileios Syros -- 7. The king 'should be' sovereign : Christine de Pizan and the problem of sovereignty in fifteenth-century France / Kate Langdon Forhan -- 8. Jean Bodin's Republique / Sara Miglietti -- 9. Hugo Grotius : absolutism, contractualism, resistance / Marco Barducci -- 10. Shakespeare on sovereignty, indivisibility, and popular consent / Stella Achilleos -- 11. Sovereignty and the separation of powers on the eve of the English Civil War : Henry Parker's Observations and Charles' Answer to the XIX Propositions / Michael Mendle -- 12. Thomas Hobbes, sovereign representation, and the English revolution / Glenn Burgess -- 13. John Locke and the language of sovereignty / Geoff Kemp -- 14. Rousseau's sovereignty as the General Will / David Lay Williams -- 15. Sovereignty in the American founding / Michael Zuckert -- 16. Thomas Paine : reinventing popular sovereignty in an age of revolutions / Carine Lounissi -- 17. Sovereignty and political obligation : T.H. Green's critique of John Austin / John Morrow -- 18. Divided sovereignties : Lenin and dual power / Antonis Balasopoulos -- 19. Carl Schmitt and the sovereignty of decision / Mika Ojakangas -- 20. Arendt on sovereignty / Shmuel Lederman -- 21. Foucault and Agamben on sovereignty : taking life, letting live, or making survive / Carlo Salzani -- 22. Derrida on the 'slow and differentiated' deconstruction of sovereignty / James Martel -- Further reading -- Index.
Summary:
"Reading Texts on Sovereignty charts the development of the concept from the classical period to the present day. Defined in antiquity as an absolute or supreme type of power, sovereignty's history has been marked ever since by numerous moments of crisis and contestation through which its meaning has been redefined and reconfigured. Using extracts of key texts selected and analysed by leading contributors from the USA, the UK, Australia, Japan, Ireland, Cyprus, Finland and Spain, this volume examines these moments and how different societies have grappled with sovereignty through the ages. The book explores a diverse range of geographical and cultural contexts within which the issue of sovereignty became critical, including Medieval Islam, 19th-century Latin America and 20th-century Africa and the Caribbean. In addition the book includes chapters that respond to the vital interplay between the development of the theory of sovereignty and such momentous historical events and developments as the birth of the democratic polis in the classical world, the legal and political developments that attended the rise of the Roman and Islamic empires, the bitter struggles over sovereign rights between the 'temporal' and 'spiritual' authorities of Medieval Europe, the Treaty of Westphalia, the English Civil War, the French and American Revolutions, the October Revolution as well as anticolonial revolutions in two continents"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Textual moments in the history of political thought ; [9]
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