Linked Data Explorer

""Sovereignty and Liberty: The Foundations of Power is a study of the place of law in the idea of liberty. It addresses the reasons why law lies at the heart of a democratic model of government in order to consider how shifts in the conception of human existence have led to a crisis of our faith in laws capacity to guarantee liberty. Legal theorists and political scientists almost invariably consider the question of liberty as a matter of its more or less successful translation into politico-legal order, whether it be in terms of rational choice, ideological commitment or an idea of republican government. But, in so doing, they usually fail to consider the subtle mechanisms by which subjection to law informs the articulation of liberty. Sovereignty and Liberty engages this foundational question of public law and constitutional order, in order to consider the dramatic changes to the state-bound orders of Western societies that have occurred during the 20th century; especially as they relate to our disenchantment with sovereign power and the forms of community that have grown up around it. ""
"The attitude we take to power is almost invariably one of distrust, never more so than when it claims to be sovereign. And yet, we have always been drawn to sovereignty. Out of fear or fascination, we accepted that it was a condition of our liberty; that to assert ourselves as free, we would have to work not against but through sovereign power. This book retraces the history of the implication of sovereignty and liberty, an implication that has shaped the way we live together, as individuals and as political beings. Shedding new light on the work of key political and constitutional thinkers."@en
""Sovereignty and Liberty: The Foundations of Power is a study of the place of law in the idea of liberty. It addresses the reasons why law lies at the heart of a democratic model of government in order to consider how shifts in the conception of human existence have led to a crisis of our faith in laws capacity to guarantee liberty. Legal theorists and political scientists almost invariably consider the question of liberty as a matter of its more or less successful translation into politico-legal order, whether it be in terms of rational choice, ideological commitment or an idea of republican government. But, in so doing, they usually fail to consider the subtle mechanisms by which subjection to law informs the articulation of liberty. Sovereignty and Liberty engages this foundational question of public law and constitutional order, in order to consider the dramatic changes to the state-bound orders of Western societies that have occurred during the 20th century; especially as they relate to our disenchantment with sovereign power and the forms of community that have grown up around it. "--"@en
""Sovereignty and Liberty: The Foundations of Power is a study of the place of law in the idea of liberty. It addresses the reasons why law lies at the heart of a democratic model of government in order to consider how shifts in the conception of human existence have led to a crisis of our faith in laws capacity to guarantee liberty. Legal theorists and political scientists almost invariably consider the question of liberty as a matter of its more or less successful translation into politico-legal order, whether it be in terms of rational choice, ideological commitment or an idea of republican government. But, in so doing, they usually fail to consider the subtle mechanisms by which subjection to law informs the articulation of liberty. Sovereignty and Liberty engages this foundational question of public law and constitutional order, in order to consider the dramatic changes to the state-bound orders of Western societies that have occurred during the 20th century; especially as they relate to our disenchantment with sovereign power and the forms of community that have grown up around it. "--"
""Sovereignty and Liberty: A Study of the Foundations of Power studies the place of law in the idea of liberty. Legal theorists and political scientists almost invariably consider the question of liberty as a matter of its more or less successful translation into politico-legal order, but in so doing they usually fail to consider the subtle mechanisms by which subjection to law informs the articulation of liberty. This book addresses the reasons why law lies at the heart of a democratic model of government in order to consider how shifts in the conception of human existence have led to a crisis of our faith in law's capacity to guarantee liberty. The book introduces two key concepts to explain the exercise of power: the idea of a faith in sovereignty and the idea of the survival society that has risen in the wake of the demise of sovereignty. Drawing on the work of key names in the study of sovereignty, power and liberty, including Thomas Hobbes, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt, this book investigates the modern attachment to sovereignty, and how subjection to it became a source of existential meaning. Offering controversial new insights into the implication of liberalism in sovereign power and the dissociation of sovereignty, this book will appeal to students and academics in law, politics, and across the social sciences"--"@en
""Sovereignty and Liberty: A Study of the Foundations of Power studies the place of law in the idea of liberty. Legal theorists and political scientists almost invariably consider the question of liberty as a matter of its more or less successful translation into politico-legal order, but in so doing they usually fail to consider the subtle mechanisms by which subjection to law informs the articulation of liberty. This book addresses the reasons why law lies at the heart of a democratic model of government in order to consider how shifts in the conception of human existence have led to a crisis of our faith in law's capacity to guarantee liberty. The book introduces two key concepts to explain the exercise of power: the idea of a faith in sovereignty and the idea of the survival society that has risen in the wake of the demise of sovereignty. Drawing on the work of key names in the study of sovereignty, power and liberty, including Thomas Hobbes, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt, this book investigates the modern attachment to sovereignty, and how subjection to it became a source of existential meaning. Offering controversial new insights into the implication of liberalism in sovereign power and the dissociation of sovereignty, this book will appeal to students and academics in law, politics, and across the social sciences"--"

Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1369055086

Sovereignty and liberty : the foundations of power

Open All Close All

type

http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type

about

http://schema.org/about

author

http://schema.org/author

contributor

http://schema.org/contributor

creator

http://schema.org/creator

description

http://schema.org/description

genre

http://schema.org/genre

name

http://schema.org/name

workExample

http://schema.org/workExample