Beyond the People: Social Imaginary and Constituent Imagination 1st Edition

Beyond the People: Social Imaginary and Constituent Imagination 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198799092,0198799098,9780192519856, 0192519859

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0192519859
• ISBN-13: 9780192519856
• Author: Zoran Oklopcic

Beyond the People develops a provocative, interdisciplinary, and meta-theoretical critique of the idea of popular sovereignty. It asks simple but far-reaching questions: Can ‘imagined’ communities, or ‘invented’ peoples, ever be theorized without, at the same time, being re-imagined and re-invented anew? Can polemical concepts, such as popular sovereignty or constituent power, be theorized objectively? If, as this book argues, the answer to these questions is no, theorists who approach the figure of a sovereign people must acknowledge that their activity is inseparable from the practice of constituent imagination.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 A Different Beginning: Theory as Imagination

Chapter 2 Constituent Imagination: Behind Popular Expectations

Chapter 3 Many, Other, Place, Frame: Beyond a Sovereign People

Chapter 4 Hope, Telos, Xenos: Beyond Constituent Power

Chapter 5 Nephos, Scopos, Algorithm: Beyond Self-Determination (I)

Chapter 6 The Nomos and the Gaze: Beyond Self-Determination (II)

Chapter 7 Territorial Isomorphs: Beyond Foundational Authority

Chapter 8 Constitutional Isomorphs: Beyond Collective Self-Government

Chapter 9 An Isomorphic Pluriverse: Beyond Sovereign Peoples

Chapter 10 A New Hope: Image Wars and Eutopian Imagination

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