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

ISBN-13: 9781107533844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 229 str.

Kevin Olson

Opis

Imagined Sovereignties provokes new ways of imagining popular politics by critically examining the idea of 'the power of the people'.

Recenzje

'In the age of globalized governance, notions of popular sovereignty become increasingly problematic, but remain hotly disputed. Drawing on acute readings and broad historical comparisons, Kevin Olson has reconstructed what he calls 'folk foundationalism' as a plastic fantasy, albeit one that has immense historical repercussions through its 'inciting' to discourse and action and, therefore, its material normativity. This critique initially produces embarrassment, but in the end it liberates the political imagination. It is both very timely and remarkably original.' Etienne Balibar, Columbia University, New York

Spis treści

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.