After Sovereignty

Addressing the three dominant contemporary attitudes towards sovereignty - Sovereignty Renewed; Sovereignty Rethought; Sovereignty Rejected - After Sovereignty considers the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social, political, and legal theory.

Charles Barbour is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney. George Pavlich is a Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Alberta.

Introduction, George Pavlich and Charles Barbour 1. Leveraging Leviathan, Peter Fitzpatrick 2. On the Subject of Sovereigns, George Pavlich 3. Sovereignty After Sovereignty, Richard Joyce 4. Sovereignty without Sovereignty: Derrida's Declarations of Independence, Jacques De Ville 5. Freedom After the Law: Arendt and Nancy's Concept of 'The Political', Catherine Kellogg 6. Exception and Event: Schmitt, Arendt, and Badiou, Charles Barbour 7. Rival Jurisdictions: The Promise and Loss of Sovereignty, Shaun McVeigh and Sundhya Pahuja 8. After Sovereignty: Spectres of Colonialism, Bryan Hogeveen 9. What Comes After Sovereignty, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 10. Polymorphous Sovereignty, Stephen Humphreys 11. Giorgio Agamben: Thought Between Two Revolutions, Amy Swiffen 12. Walter Benjamin, Eschatology and the Sovereignty of Power, James Martel