Democracy's Empire: Sovereignty, Law, and ViolenceISBN: 978-1-4051-6313-2
Paperback
176 pages
February 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Explains the current formation of the relation between
sovereignty, law and violence in what is termed
‘Democracy’s Empire’
- Contains a situated discussion of the institution of democracy
and related
juridico-political problems
- Examines the historical and philosophical legacies which inform
Democracy’s Empire – such as the Roman Republic, the
separation between Church and State in the enlightenment,
formations of revolutionary violence, and the relation between norm
and exception
- Poses the problem of violence and death at the heart of the
institution of democracy including examples such as South Africa
and Iraq
- Offers a mixture of historical and philosophical treatment of democracy as a juridical problem of constitutional violence