Imagined Sovereignties : The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age (Hardcover)

1. Imagining politics; 2. 'Sovereignty is an artificial soul' - Ernesto Laclau and Benedict Anderson in dialogue; 3. How do we write a history of normative practices? - Castoriadis, Taylor, Foucault; 4. The problem of the people in Enlightenment France - a short genealogy of political collectivity; 5. Chimeras of political identity - intermediate reflections on the pathways of political imagination; 6. Sovereign imaginaries of the Revolutionary Caribbean; 7. Conscripted by modernity? - imagining sovereignty in the wake of colonialism; 8. Imagining the power of the people - critical reflections on the sovereignties of our time.