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This book by Santiago José Polop explores the ontologies of consensus and conflict in the construction of norms within the framework of popular sovereignty and law. It delves into philosophical and legal theories, examining the legitimacy of political power and the role of popular sovereignty in modern democracies. The work engages with the ideas of thinkers such as Rousseau, Habermas, and Wittgenstein, discussing the intersection of law, community, and political obligation. It is intended for scholars and students of political philosophy, legal theory, and social sciences, aiming to provide a comprehensive understanding of how legal norms are constructed and legitimized through democratic processes.

Democracy. --- Sovereignty. --- Democracy --- Sovereignty

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This book addresses the complex geopolitical issues surrounding the Malvinas (Falkland Islands), Antarctica, and the South Atlantic. It explores themes of colonialism, sovereignty, and development in the 21st century, focusing on Argentina's historical and legal claims over the Malvinas. The work is a compilation of essays from a research contest organized by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other institutions, aiming to stimulate academic discourse on these topics across Latin America and the Caribbean. The book is targeted at scholars, policymakers, and those interested in international relations and regional development.

Sovereignty. --- Colonial influence. --- Sovereignty --- Colonial influence

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When we talk about globalization, we tend to focus on its social and economic benefits. In Governance in the New Global Disorder, the political philosopher Daniel Innerarity considers its unsettling and largely unacknowledged consequences. The "opening" of different societies to new ideas, products, and forms of prosperity has introduced a persistent uncertainty, or disorder, into everyday life. Multinational corporations have weakened sovereignty. We no longer know who is in control or who is responsible. Economies can collapse without sufficient warning, and the effort to rebuild can drag on for years. Piracy is everywhere. Is there any way to balance the interests of state, marketplace, and society in this new construct of power? Since national economies have become deterritorialized and political interdependencies aggravate our common vulnerabilities, Innerarity contends that there is no other solution except to move toward global governance and a denationalization of justice. Globalization tries to unify the world through technologies, the economy, and cultural products and styles, but it cannot articulate or regulate political and legal equivalents. Everyone faces the same risks to their security, food supply, health, financial stability, and environment, and these risks demand a new global politics of humanity. In her foreword, the sociologist Saskia Sassen isolates the key takeaways from Innerarity's argument and the solutions they present to growing global tensions.

International cooperation. --- Globalization. --- Sovereignty.

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Using the Western tradition of metaphysical and political thought as a backdrop, Critique of Sovereignty (a work in 4 volumes) re-examines the concept of sovereignty in order to better understand why our ethical values and technical capacities often seem so divorced from our lived realities. On the one hand, ostensibly self-enclosed entities like the nation-state and the person are rhetorically bolstered as sites of technical agency and/or moral responsibility. On the other hand, these same entities appear fragile -- if not purely fictional -- in relation to ever ongoing tidal processes such as the migration, diffusion, and conglomeration of bodies, capital, ideas, etc. While some of our institutions might work some of the time, they always seem to work differently than we like to think they do. Accordingly, the forging of more humane institutions might very well entail if not require ways of thinking that strive to undo the self-imagined binds, exceptions, and sureties of thought for the sake of embracing a continuity with all that withers, decays, and falls away. Book I, "Contemporary Theories of Sovereignty," compares the varied interpretations of sovereignty given by a range of 20th-century political theorists (Maritain, Foucault, Derrida, Schmitt, Agamben, Hardt, and Negri) with Jean Bodin's initial outline of the concept, rendered at the outset of modern political thought in the 16th century. The analytic framework of sovereignty encountered in these comparative readings provides an initial point of departure for unfolding a method of critique appropriate to the concept of sovereignty. Sovereignty is an ideal starting point for a critique of the deadlocks between thought and reality for a simple reason: it doesn't actually exist. When it serves as a guide to action, sovereignty may be regarded as a particularly captivating fantasy. The closer it appears, the further it recedes, and, too often, the more vigorously it is pursued.

Sovereignty --- Philosophy. --- history --- politics --- sovereignty --- political theory --- philosophy

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A fierce critique of productivity and sovereignty in the world of labor and everyday life, Bruno Gullì's Earthly Plenitudes asks, can labor exist without sovereignty and without capitalism? He introduces the concept of dignity of individuation to prompt a rethinking of categories of political ontology. Dignity of individuation stresses the notion that the dignity of each and any individual being lies in its being individuated as such; dignity is the irreducible and most essential character of any being. Singularity is a more universal quality.Gullì first reviews approaches to sove

Labor --- Work --- Marxian economics. --- Capitalism. --- Sovereignty. --- Philosophy.