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Sovereignty and Its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political

Sovereignty and Its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political

Rasch, William

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Series: Birkbeck Law Press

General LawGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1859419844
ISBN13: 9781859419847
Publisher: Birkbeck Law Press
Published: Aug 18 2004
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.09
Language: English

This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'.

The notion of the political expounded here is explicitly 'realist' and anti-utopian - in large part because the author finds the consequences of attempting to think 'the good life' to be far more damaging than thinking 'the tolerable life'. The political is not thought of as a means to implement the good life; rather, the political exists because the good life does not. Indeed, if one sees 'globalization', with its emphasis on efficiency and economy, as a threat to the autonomy of the political, then one ought to be wary of political ideologies that reduce the political to species of moral or legal discourse.

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