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Alex Lefebvre: Sovereignty

I. Sovereignty and the Political


Schmitt, C 2007, The Concept of the Political, trans. George Schwab, Chicago University Press, Chicago, pp. 19-79. Agamben, Giorgio. State of Exception. Translated by Kevin Attell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Dyzenhaus, David, ed. Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Mouffe, Chantal, ed. The Challenge of Carl Schmitt. London: Verso, 1999. Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology: Four Concepts on the Concept of Sovereignty. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2006.

II. Sovereignty and Human Rights


Arendt, H, 1968, The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man, in Origins of Totalitarianism, Harcourt Brace, New York, pp. 268-302. Birmingham, Peg. Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Isaac, Jeffrey C. "A New Guarantee on Earth: Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human Rights." American Political Science Review 90, no. 1 (1966): 61-73. Sarat, Austin, ed. Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Parekh, Serena. Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights. London: Routledge, 2009.

III. Sovereign Power


Foucault, M 1995, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, Vintage, New York, 1995, pp. 1-24, 47-54, 5765.

Deleuze, Gilles. "Postscript on Control Societies." In Negotiations, 177-82. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Dreyfus, Herbert, and Paul Rabinow. Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1983. Kantorowicz, Ernst H. The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Simmons, John. Foucault and the Political. London: Routledge, 1995.

Simon Tormey: Power


I. Power and Fetishism
Holloway, J 2011 [2002], Change the World Without Taking Power, chapters 1-3, viewed 31 May 2011, <http://libcom.org/library/change-world-without-taking-power-johnholloway>.

Debord, Guy (1967) The Society of the Spectacle Knabb, Ken (1981) Situationist International Anthology, Berkeley, Calif.: Bureau of Public Secrets. Home, Stewart (1996) What Is Situationism? : A Reader, Edinburgh, Scotland ; San Francisco, CA: AK Press. Gray, Christopher (1998) Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International London: Rebel Press. Plant, Sadie (1992) The Most Radical Gesture : The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age, London, Routledge.

II. Power as Hegemony


Laclau, E & Mouffe, C 1985, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, Verso, London, pp. 149-194. Laclau, Ernesto (1996) Emancipation(S), London: Verso. Laclau, E. (2001) 'Democracy and the Question of Power' Constellations 8, 314. Critchley, Simon and Oliver Merchart (2004) Laclau: A Critical Reader Tormey, Simon and Jules Townshend (2006) Key Thinkers chapter on Laclau and Mouffe

III. Power and Anti-Power

Holloway, J 2011 [2002], Change the World Without Taking Power , chapters 1-3, viewed 31 May 2011, <http://libcom.org/library/change-world-without-taking-power-johnholloway>. Marcos, Subcomandante Insurgente (2000) Our Word is our Weapon London: Serpents Tail Alam, M. Junaid (2005). Taking Power Seriously: A Response to John Holloway. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=7610 Holloway, John (2006). Drive Your Cart and Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead. http://www.herramienta.com.ar/debate-sobre-cambiar-el-mundo/driveyour-cart-and-your-plough-over-bones-dead Robinson, Andrew and Simon Tormey (2005). 'Horizontals, Verticals and the Conflicting Logics of Transformative Politics' in Confronting Globalization. C. el-Ojeili and P. Hayden. London, Palgrave Various (2006-). Debate on John Holloway. http://www.herramienta.

John Keane: Truth


I. Truth
Rorty, R 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press, Princeton, pp. 357-394 Rorty, R 2008, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, Princeton University Press, Princeton, p. 3-13. Richard Rorty (1991), The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy, in Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, volume 1, pp. 175-196 Richard Rorty (1989), Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity Gianni Vattimo (2011), A Farewell to Truth New York: Columbia UP, 2011. Jean-Franois Lyotard (1984), The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Hannah Arendt (1968), Truth in Politics, in Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969), On Certainty Umberto Eco (1999), Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition Frankfurt, Harry 2006. On Truth, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.

II. Lies
Jay, M 2008, Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics, viewed 31 May 2011, <http://eprints.sifp.it/185/>. Arendt, H 1972, Lying in Politics, in Crises of the Republic, Harcourt Brace, New York, pp. 3-47

John Keane (2010), Lying, Journalism, Democracy, at http://johnkeane.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/jk-lectures-lying-mediaand-democracy.pdf-revised.pdf Harry G. Frankfurt (2005), On Bullshit, Princeton University Press, Princeton. Alexandre Koyr, The Political Function of the Modern Lie, Contemporary Jewish Record, volume 8, number 3 (June 1945), pp. 290-300; and The Liar, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 6, number 3 (1946), pp. 344-362. Jean-Michel Rabat (2007), The Ethics of the Lie Michel Foucault (1983), Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia, at http://foucault.info/documents/parrhesia/

III. Democracy
Keane, J 2009, The Life and Death of Democracy, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, pp. 839-872 Rorty R 1991, The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy, in Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 175-196. John Keane (2006), Is Democracy a Universal Ideal?, at http://johnkeane.net/wpcontent/uploads/2011/01/Keane_gulbenkian_conference_pdf.pdf Yu Keping (2009), Democracy is a Good Thing. Essays on Politics, Society, and Culture in Contemporary China Amartya Sen (1999), Is Democracy a Universal value?, Journal of Democracy 10 (3), pp. 3-17 Jean-Luc Nancy (2010), The Truth of Democracy Robert E. Goodin (2003), Reflective Democracy Pierre Rosanvallon (2008), Counter-Democracy. Politics in an Age of Distrust

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