The state of sovereignty : lessons from the political fiction of modernity / Peter Gratton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Vase of Soissons and the Lessons of Sovereignty -- Noble Thesis and the Ends of Pagan Sovereignty -- Where Sovereignty Lies Today -- ch. One Rousseau and the Right of Life and Death over the Body Politic -- State of Sovereignty after the Social Contract -- Contracting the Sovereign -- Lessons from "L'artifice et le jeu" of Sovereignty -- Men and Citizens, Life and Death -- Sovereign Pardon -- ch. Two Arendt's Archaeology of Sovereignty -- Fragmented Past and The Future of the Political -- Beginning Again: The Arche of the Political -- Finding a Home in the Political -- ch. Three "The World is at Stake": Sovereignty and the Right to Have Rights -- Sovereign Totalitarianism -- Rise of the Nation-State -- Policing the State -- Right to Have Rights -- ch. Four Torturing Sovereignty: Foucault's Regicide in Theory -- Genealogies in the Multiple -- Sovereign Madness -- Histories of the State of Sovereignty -- Rise of the Nation-State -- Bio-political Sovereignty -- Foucault, Schmitt, and "the King Who Rules but Does not Govern" -- Beyond the Sovereign Decision -- Sovereign Freedom, or Freedom from Sovereignty -- ch. Five What More Is There to Say?: Agamben and the Hyperbole of Sovereignty -- Sacrifice of History -- Homo Sacer: The Significance of Words -- From Homo Sacer to Vir Sacer -- Glory of Another Sovereignty -- Sovereign Relations -- Last Words: The Language of Sovereignty and Noo-Politics -- Hyperbole that Remains -- ch. Six Derrida and the Limits of Sovereignty's Reason: Freedom, Equality, but Not Fraternity -- Le Tres Haut of Mount Moriah -- Freedom, Equality, but Not Fraternity.

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