Book Description
Subjects and Sovereigns reexamines the traditional bond between subject and sovereign and argues that this relationship endured as a powerful site for claims-making in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Author : Hannah Weiss Muller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0190465816
Subjects and Sovereigns reexamines the traditional bond between subject and sovereign and argues that this relationship endured as a powerful site for claims-making in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Author : Corinne Comstock Weston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2003-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521892865
The book charts the establishment of the modern idea of parliamentary sovereignty.
Author : Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2020-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000247392
Indigenous rights in Australia are at a crossroads. Over the past decade, neo-liberal governments have reasserted their claim to land in Australia, and refuse to either negotiate with the Indigenous owners or to make amends for the damage done by dispossession. Many Indigenous communities are in a parlous state, under threat both physically and culturally. In Sovereign Subjects some of Indigenous Australia's emerging and well-known critical thinkers examine the implications for Indigenous people of continuing to live in a state founded on invasion. They show how for Indigenous people, self-determination, welfare dependency, representation, cultural maintenance, history writing, reconciliation, land ownership and justice are all inextricably linked to the original act of dispossession by white settlers and the ongoing loss of sovereignty. At a time when the old left political agenda has run its course, and the new right is looking increasingly morally bankrupt, Sovereign Subjects sets a new rights agenda for Indigenous politics and Indigenous studies.
Author : HLA Hart
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191630071
Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century, and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time. In this third edition, Leslie Green provides a new introduction that sets the book in the context of subsequent developments in social and political philosophy, clarifying misunderstandings of Hart's project and highlighting central tensions and problems in the work.
Author : Daltún Ó Ceallaigh
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 1993-08-01
Category : Irish unification question
ISBN : 9780951877715
Author : Susanne Sreedhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139488309
Hobbes's political theory has traditionally been taken to be an endorsement of state power and a prescription for unconditional obedience to the sovereign's will. In this book, Susanne Sreedhar develops a novel interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation and explores important cases where Hobbes claims that subjects have a right to disobey and resist state power, even when their lives are not directly threatened. Drawing attention to this broader set of rights, her comprehensive analysis of Hobbes's account of political disobedience reveals a unified and coherent theory of resistance that has previously gone unnoticed and undefended. Her book will appeal to all who are interested in the nature and limits of political authority, the right of self-defense, the right of revolution, and the modern origins of these issues.
Author : Paolo Sarpi
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 1722
Category : Church and state
ISBN :
Author : Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1509521399
What does it mean for the people to actually rule? Formal democracy is an empty and cynical shell, while the nationalist Right claims to advance its anti-democratic project in the name of ‘the People’. How can the Left respond in a way that is true to both its radical egalitarianism and its desire to transform the real world? In this book, Gianpaolo Baiocchi argues that the only answer is a radical utopia of popular self-rule. This means that the ‘people’ who rule must be understood as a demos that is totally open, inclusive and egalitarian, constantly expanding its boundaries. But it also means that sovereignty must be absolute, possessing total power over all relevant decisions that impact the conditions of life. Only, he argues, by a process of explosive and creative tension between this radical view of the ‘we’ and an absolute idea of the ‘sovereign’ can we transform our approach to political parties and state institutions and make them instruments of total emancipation. Illustrated by the real-life experiences of movements throughout the world, from Latin America to Southern Europe, Baiocchi’s provocative vision will be essential reading for all activists who want to understand the true meaning of radical democracy in the 21st century.
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 048612214X
Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Author : Bertrand de Jouvenel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107600170
Bertrand de Jouvenel examines the relationship between the distribution of power and the creation of an ethical society.