Sovereignty and its Discontents : On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political (Paperback)

Introduction; Part 1 Politics as Conflict; Chapter 1 Conflict as a Vocation: Schmitt, Lyotard, Luhmann; Chapter 2 A Just War? Or Just a War?; Chapter 3 So You Say You Want a Revolution: Brecht vs Brecht; Part 2 Sovereignty and Original Sin; Chapter 4 Guilt as Religion: Benjamin; Chapter 5 From Sovereign Ban to Banning Sovereignty: Agamben; Chapter 6 Persistent Sovereignty: Hardt and Negri; Part 3 Even Unto the End of the World…; Chapter 7 ‘For There Is No Difference between the Jew and the Greek’: The Legacy of St Paul; Chapter 8 Human Rights as Geopolitics: From Vitoria to Rawls;