The scaffolding of sovereignty : global and aesthetic perspectives on the history of a concept

The scaffolding of sovereignty : global and aesthetic perspectives on the history of a concept / edited by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole Jerr.

What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a...

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Other Authors: Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi (Editor), Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979- (Editor), Jerr, Nicole (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Series:Columbia studies in political thought/political history.
Subjects:
Sovereignty > Philosophy.
Sovereignty > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Sad stories of the death of kings : sovereignty and its constraints in Greek tragedy and elsewhere / Glenn W. Most
  • Contested sovereignty : heaven, the monarch, the people, and the intellectuals in traditional China / Yuri Pines
  • Nurhaci's gambit : sovereignty as concept and praxis in the rise of the Manchus / Nicola Di Cosmo
  • The living image of the people / Jason Frank
  • Public health, the state, and religious scholarship : sovereignty in Idris al-Bidlisi's arguments for fleeing the plague / Justin Stearns
  • The dancing despot : Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the performative symbolism of power / Stanca Scholz-Cionca
  • Liberal constitutionalism and the sovereign pardon / Bernadette Meyler
  • The vanishing slaves of Paris : the lettre de cachet and the emergence of an imperial legal order in eighteenth-century France / Miranda Spieler
  • Re-touching the sovereign : biochemistry of perpetual Leninism / Alexei Yurchak
  • Hijra and exile : Islam and dual sovereignty in Qing China / Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
  • The neurology of regicide : decapitation experiments and the science of sovereignty / Cathy Gere
  • The "millennium" of 1857 : the last performance of the great Mughal / A. Azfar Moin
  • Exit the king? : modern theater and the revolution / Nicole Jerr
  • Revolution in permanence and the fall of popular sovereignty / Dan Edelstein
  • Exile within sovereignty : critique of "the negation of exile" in Israeli culture / Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
  • Affective sovereignty, international law, and China's legal status in the nineteenth century / Li Chen
  • The sovereignty of the new man after Wagner : artist and hero, symbolic history, and the staging of origins / Stefanos Geroulanos.

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