Sovereignty, knowledge, law

• Main Author: Minkkinen, Panu.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Subjects: Sovereignty > Psychological aspects.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > National. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.; Electronic books.
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Sovereignty, Knowledge, Law investigates and problematises the notion of sovereignty from three different, but related perspectives: as a legal question in relation to the sovereign state, as a political question in relation to sovereign power, and as a metaphysical question in relation to sovereign...

Table of Contents:

• Sovereignty and the law
• Sovereignty and the state
• Sovereignty postulated
• The ethos of sovereignty
• Constituent sovereignty
• Sovereignty, discipline and government
• Sovereignty as absolute knowledge
• Sovereignty as non-knowledge
• Sovereignty as jouissance.