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

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Olson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Klappentext Imagined Sovereignties provokes new ways of imagining popular politics by critically examining the idea of 'the power of the people'. Zusammenfassung Imagined Sovereignties probes the enormous force that 'the power of the people' exercises on our thought and practice. It explores collective identity and popular power in a genealogy traversing the French Enlightenment and revolutionary Haiti. Through this critical history! it provokes new ways of imagining 'the power of the people'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Olson, Kevin (University of California Olson, Olson Kevin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2016
• EAN: 9781107113237
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11323-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Political science & theory, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Social and cultural history, Political science and theory, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions