Sovereignties in Question

Sovereignties in Question
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9780823224371
ISBN-13 : 0823224376
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Sovereignties in Question by : Jacques Derrida

This book brings together five encounters. They include the date or signature and its singularity; the notion of the trace; structures of futurity and the "to come"; language and questions of translation; such speech acts as testimony and promising; the possibility of the impossible; and the poem as addressed and destined beyond knowledge.

Competing Sovereignties

Competing Sovereignties
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9781136294952
ISBN-13 : 1136294953
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Competing Sovereignties by : Richard Joyce

Competing Sovereignties provides a critique of the concept of sovereignty in modernity in light of claims to determine the content of law at the international, national and local levels. In an argument that is illustrated through an analysis of debates over the control of intellectual property law in India, Richard Joyce considers how economic globalization and the claims of indigenous communities do not just challenge national sovereignty - as if national sovereignty is the only kind of sovereignty - but in fact invite us to challenge our conception of what sovereignty ‘is’. Combining theoretical research and reflection with an analysis of the legal, institutional and political context in which sovereignties 'compete', the book offers a reconception of modern sovereignty - and, with it, a new appreciation of the complex issues surrounding the relationship between international organisations, nation states and local and indigenous communities.

敞开的视界——跨学科与跨文化视野下的文学研究

敞开的视界——跨学科与跨文化视野下的文学研究
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Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Total Pages : 393
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Synopsis 敞开的视界——跨学科与跨文化视野下的文学研究 by : 耿幼壮著

本书试图以宽广的视野再度审视西方文学与文化之间的关系。作者相信,从奥古斯丁到阿冈本,西方文学和文学理论的发展始终与西方哲学、宗教和艺术传统的形成紧密相连,只能也必须从跨学科的角度来加以认识和探讨。不仅如此,从柏拉图到德里达,西方文化也总是在与作为他者的东方文化的相互影响和相互作用下而形成和发展的;对于前者,那是更为古老的埃及文化,对于后者,则是相对陌生的中国文化。因此,使我们的视界得以敞开的前提就是世界自身在向我们不断敞开。

Sovereignties

Sovereignties
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9780230593527
ISBN-13 : 0230593526
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Sovereignties by : R. Prokhovnik

Raia Prokhovnik develops a strong argument for sovereignty as a robust concept with many conceptualizations, and capable of further fruitful reconceptualization. The book explores contemporary theoretical developments and current political issues around sovereignty that have crucial practical and institutional implications.

After Sovereignty

After Sovereignty
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781134008995
ISBN-13 : 1134008996
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis After Sovereignty by : Charles Barbour

After Sovereignty addresses the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social, political, and legal theory. The emergence, and now apparent implosion, of international capital exceeding the borders of known political entities, the continued expansion of a potentially endless 'War on Terror', the often predicted, but still uncertain, establishment of either a new international American Empire or a new era of International Law, the proliferation of social and political struggles among stateless refugees, migrant workers, and partial citizens, the resurgence of religion as a dominant source of political identification among people all over the globe – these developments and others have thrown into crisis the modern concept of sovereignty, and the notions of statehood and citizenship that rest upon it. Drawing on classical sources and more contemporary speculations, and developing a range of arguments concerning the possibility of political beginnings in the current moment, the papers collected in After Sovereignty contribute to a renewed interest in the problem of sovereignty in theoretical and political debate. They also provide a multitude of resources for the urgent, if necessarily fractured and diffuse, effort to reconfigure sovereignty today. Whilst it has regularly been suggested that the sovereignty of the nation-state is in crisis, the exact reasons for, and exact implications of, this crisis have rarely been so intensively examined.

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9781935408093
ISBN-13 : 1935408097
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Walled States, Waning Sovereignty by : Wendy Brown

Discusses the spate of wall-building by countries around the world and considers the reasons why walls are being built in an increasingly globalized world in which threats to security come from sources that cannot be contained by brick and barbed wire.

Expression and Truth

Expression and Truth
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Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9780520273962
ISBN-13 : 0520273966
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Expression and Truth by : Lawrence Kramer

Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These models derive from five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. The theses are linked by a concentration on musical expression, regarded as the ideal case of expression in general, and by fresh readings of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s scattered but important remarks about music. The result is a new conception of expression as a primary means of knowing, acting on, and forming the world. “Recent years have seen the return of the claim that music’s power resides in its ineffability. In Expression and Truth, Lawrence Kramer presents his most elaborate response to this claim. Drawing on philosophers such as Wittgenstein and on close analyses of nineteenth-century compositions, Kramer demonstrates how music operates as a medium for articulating cultural meanings and that music matters too profoundly to be cordoned off from the kinds of critical readings typically brought to the other arts. A tour-de-force by one of musicology’s most influential thinkers.”—Susan McClary, Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music.

Divided Sovereignties

Divided Sovereignties
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780820349640
ISBN-13 : 082034964X
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Synopsis Divided Sovereignties by : Rochelle Raineri Zuck

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates about the constructions of American nationhood and national citizenship, the frequently invoked concept of divided sovereignty signified the division of power between state and federal authorities and/or the possibility of one nation residing within the geopolitical boundaries of another. Political and social realities of the nineteenth century—such as immigration, slavery, westward expansion, Indigenous treaties, and financial panics—amplified anxieties about threats to national/state sovereignty. Rochelle Raineri Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs’s novel Imperium in Imperio in 1899, four populations were most often referred to as racial and ethnic nations within the nation: the Cherokees, African Americans, Irish Americans, and Chinese immigrants. Writers and orators from these groups engaged the concept of divided sovereignty to assert alternative visions of sovereignty and collective allegiance (not just ethnic or racial identity), to gain political traction, and to complicate existing formations of nationhood and citizenship. Their stories intersected with issues that dominated nineteenth-century public argument and contributed to the Civil War. In five chapters focused on these groups, Zuck reveals how constructions of sovereignty shed light on a host of concerns including regional and sectional tensions; territorial expansion and jurisdiction; economic uncertainty; racial, ethnic, and religious differences; international relations; immigration; and arguments about personhood, citizenship, and nationhood.

Reading Texts on Sovereignty

Reading Texts on Sovereignty
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781350099722
ISBN-13 : 1350099724
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading Texts on Sovereignty by : Stella Achilleos

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, New Zealand, Japan, Cyprus, Finland, France, Austria, Israel, and Italy, 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 ancient China and medieval Islam. 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 and early modern Europe, the English Civil War, the French and American Revolutions, and the October Revolution.