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Zusatztext This is a wide-ranging! stimulating! challenging collection of essays. Informationen zum Autor Zvi Ben-Dor Benite is professor of history at New York University and the author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (2005) and The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (2009). Stefanos Geroulanos is professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present (2017) and coauthor of The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness! Integration! Science! and the Great War (2018). Nicole Jerr is assistant professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. Klappentext The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed! the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed! and the images and ideas on which it rests. Zusammenfassung The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword, by Dick Howard Editors' Introduction, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole Jerr Part I. Stages Preface 1. Sad Stories of the Death of Kings: Sovereignty and Its Constraints in Greek Tragedy and Elsewhere, by Glenn W. Most 2. Contested Sovereignty: Heaven, the Monarch, the People, and the Intellectuals in Traditional China, by Yuri Pines 3. Nurhaci's Gambit: Sovereignty as Concept and Praxis in the Rise of the Manchus, by Nicola Di Cosmo 4. The Living Image of the People, by Jason Frank Part II. Courts Preface 5. Public Health, the State, and Religious Scholarship: Sovereignty in Idris al-Bidlisi's Arguments for Fleeing the Plague, by Justin Stearns 6. The Dancing Despot: Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Performative Symbolism of Power, by Stanca Scholz-Cionca 7. Liberal Constitutionalism and the Sovereign Pardon, by Bernadette Meyler 8. The Vanishing Slaves of Paris: The Lettre de Cachet and the Emergence of an Imperial Legal Order in Eighteenth-Century France, by Miranda Spieler 9. Re-touching the Sovereign: Biochemistry of Perpetual Leninism, by Alexei Yurchak Part III. Acts Preface 10. Hijra and Exile: Islam and Dual Sovereignty in Qing China, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite 11. The Neurology of Regicide: Decapitation Experiments and the Science of Sovereignty, by Cathy Gere 12. The "Millennium" of 1857: The Last Performance of the Great Mughal, by A. Azfar Moin 13. Exit the King? Modern Theater and the Revolution, by Nicole Jerr Part IV. Shifts Preface 14. Revolution in Permanence and the Fall of Popular Sovereignty, by Dan Edelstein 15. Exile Within Sovereignty: Critique of "The Negation of Exile" in Israeli Culture, by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin 16. Affective Sovereignty, International Law, and China's Legal Status in the Nineteenth Century, by Li Chen 17. The Sovereignty of the New Man After Wagner: Artist and Hero, Symbolic History, and the Staging of Origins, by Stefanos Geroulanos List of Contributors Index...
