书目名称 | The Credibility of Sovereignty – The Political Fiction of a Concept |
编辑 | Elia R.G. Pusterla |
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概述 | Presents a radical, new theoretical elaboration upon the concept of sovereignty.Makes innovative use of deconstructionism to reveal the unorganised hypocrisy of modern state sovereignty.Is the first t |
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描述 | .The book deeply analyses the bilateral relations between Switzerland and the European Union and their effect on the former‘s sovereignty in the context of Europeanisation. This touches on philosophical debates on the complexity of sovereignty. What sovereignty is at stake when talking about Swiss-EU relations? This issue not only faces the elusiveness of sovereignty as a concept, but also the proliferation of hypocrisy on its presence within states. The book encounters the deconstructionist hypothesis stating that there is nothing to worry about but the belief there is something to worry about. Derrida’s deconstruction of sovereignty allows indeed one to grasp the fictional essence of sovereignty based on the metaphysics of presence. The presence of self-positing sovereign ipseity is fictional since absent in the present, but spectrally present in the belief of its presence to come. Sovereignty is a matter of credibility, or the credible promise of a normative statement to come. Hence, the book challenges the realist/neorealist argument stating that states are credibly sovereign until proven otherwise and explains that the debate on state sovereignty calls for the unveiling of thi |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | (Re)claiming Sovereignty; Applying (neo)positivist scientific standards; Claims of Sovereignty; Credibi |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26318-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-79929-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-26318-2 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |