A Critique of Sovereignty

Contents
Foreword
Introduction
	Notes
I: Traditional Theories of Sovereignty
	1. Order and Orientation: Primitive Usurpation (Jean Bodin)
		1.1 What Is Sovereignty?
		1.2 Competence-Competence and Limitation-Limitations
		1.3 Peace through Violence
	2. Binding and Blinding: The Rhetorics of Obligation (Thomas Hobbes)
		2.1 Might Is Right
		2.2 The State and Its Limits
		2.3 The Ironic Justification of Power
	3. Divide and Conquer: Autonomy as Heteronomy (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
		3.1 The Problème Fondamental and Its Solution
		3.2 What Is Popular Sovereignty?
		3.3 Forced Freedom
	4. Internalise and Internationalise: Subordinate Sovereignty (Immanuel Kant)
		4.1 The Human Right to the State
		4.2 The Rule of Reason
		4.3 Coercion and the End of Reason
	5. Interim Conclusion: Ironies of the Political
	Notes
II: Critical Theories of Sovereignty
	1. The Critique of Law-Positing Violence (Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt)
		1.1 The Dawn of Critical Sovereignty Theory: Karl Marx
		1.2 Sovereignty as the Loss of Politics: Hannah Arendt
		1.3 Marx and Arendt: A New Virtuosity of the Political
	2. The Critique of Law-Preserving Violence (Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault)
		2.1 Critical Theory of the Police: Walter Benjamin
		2.2 The Law of Sovereignty, the Mechanics of Discipline: Michel Foucault
		2.3 Benjamin and Foucault: Politics beyond the State
	3. The Critique of Law-Withholding Violence (Giorgio Agamben)
		3.1 Exception and Exclusion
		3.2 Exception and the External
		3.3 Sovereignty and Latency
	4. The Critique of Law-Interpreting Violence (Robert Cover and Jacques Derrida)
		4.1 The Non-Opposition of Law and Violence in the Work of Robert Cover
		4.2 Aporias of Decision in the Work of Jacques Derrida
		4.3 The (Im)possibility of the Non Liquet
	5. The Critique of Law-Splitting Violence (Feminist Critique of Sovereignty)
		5.1 The Four Dimensions of the State’s Masculinism
		5.2 Feminist Critique of Sovereignty: Abortion, Bio-Politics and Omnicompetence
		5.3 Post-Masculine Politics in the World of Sovereignty
	Excursus: Law-Replacing Violence (Problems of Passage)
	Notes
III: Critical Theory without Sovereignty
	1. Law without Coercion (Hermann Cohen)
	2. Commandment without the State (Franz Rosenzweig)
	3. Participation and Dissidence: Consequences of a Critical Theory of/without Sovereignty
	Notes
IV: Literature
	1. Abbreviations
	2. Further Literature
Index