Terror, Sovereignty and Law: On the Politics of Violence

German Law Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 569-584

  Newman, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 33845271536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20718322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S2071832200012694     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. 1 Cited in CLAUDE LEFORT, DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL THEORY 72-73 (David Macey trans., Polity Press, 1988).
2. 2 CLAUDE LEFORT, DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL THEORY at 84.
3. 3 GIORGIO AGAMBEN, Security and Terror, in THEORY AND EVENT, 5: 4 (2002).
4. 4 LEFORT, Security and Terror, in THEORY AND EVENT note 1, at 73.
5. 5 WALTER BENJAMIN, Critique of Violence in Selected Writings Vol. 1 1913-1926, 236, 236-7 (Marcus Bullock ed., Harvard University Press).
6. 6 WALTER BENJAMIN, Critique of Violence in Selected Writings at 238.
7. 7 WALTER BENJAMIN, Critique of Violence in Selected Writings at 243.
8. 9 GIORGIO AGAMBEN, HOMO SACER: SOVEREIGN POWER AND BARE LIFE, 15 (Daniel Heller-Roazen trans., Stanford University Press, 1998).
9. 10 WALTER BENJAMIN, Theses on the Philosophy of History, in ILLUMINATIONS, 255, 259 (Hannah Arendt ed. & Harry Zohn trans., Fontana, 1982).
10. 11 See LEFORT, Theses on the Philosophy of History, in ILLUMINATIONS note 1, at 73.
11. 12 As Agamben shows, this deliberately ambiguous category of “illegal combatant” denies the detainee any legal status and, thus, any legal rights, leaving them vulnerable to the unrestricted power of the state. See Giorgio Agamben, The State of Emergency, address at the Centre Roland-Barthes, Universite Paris VII, Denis-Diderot at http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpagambenschmitt.htm.
12. 14 See JACQUES DERRIDA, FORCE OF LAW: THE “MYSTICAL FOUNDATION OF AUTHORITY,” DECONSTRUCTION AND THE POSSIBILITY OF JUSTICE 13 (Drucilla Cornell et al. eds., Routledge, 1992).
13. 15 MICHEL FOUCAULT, Nietzsche, Genealogy, History, in THE FOUCAULT READER 91 (Paul Rabinow, ed., Pantheon Books, 1984).
14. 16 Foucault, Truth and Power, in POWER/KNOWLEDGE: SELECTED INTERVIEWS AND OTHER WRITINGS 109-133, 121 (Colin Gordon ed., Harvester Press 1980).
15. 17 There is an excellent survey of this course in BEATRICE HANSSEN, CRITIQUE OF VIOLENCE: BETWEEN POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND CRITICAL THEORY (Routledge 2000).
16. 18 Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège De France, Lecture at the College of France (14 Jan. 1976), in SOCIETY 1975-76 23 (David Macey trans., Allen Lane 2003).
17. 20 Michel Foucault, War in the Filigree of Peace: Course Summary, Address (1976) in OXFORD LITERARY REVIEW, at 17-18, (Ian Mcleod trans.,(1976)).
18. 22 PASQUALE PASQUINO, Political Theory of War and Peace: Foucault and the History of Modern Political Theory, in ECONOMY AND SOCIETY 22, 84 (1993).
19. 23 Again we see the parallel between violence and sovereignty - the way that the condition of sovereignty is also this undecidability, in relation to the law.
20. 24 MICHEL FOUCAULT, HISTORY OF SEXUALITY VO. 1, 136 (Robert Hurley trans., Penguin 1990).
21. 25 See MICHEL FOUCAULT, DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: THE BIRTH OF THE PRISON (Alan Sheridan trans., Penguin 1991).
22. 26 See Georges Bataille, The Psychological Structure of Fascism, in VISIONS OF EXCESS: SELECTED WRITINGS, 137-160 (Alan Stoekl ed. and trans., University of Manchester Press 1985).
23. 27 Georges Bataille, The Psychological Structure of Fascism, in VISIONS OF EXCESS: SELECTED WRITINGS at 148.
24. 28 Georges Bataille, The Psychological Structure of Fascism, in VISIONS OF EXCESS: SELECTED WRITINGS at 150.
25. 29 Georges Bataille, The Psychological Structure of Fascism, in VISIONS OF EXCESS: SELECTED WRITINGS at 152.
26. 30 Jean Baudrillard, The Spirit of Terrorism, LE MONDE, 2 November 2001.
27. 31 ALAIN BADIOU, Philosophical Considerations of Some Recent Facts, in THEORY AND EVENT, 1-13 (Steven Corcoran trans., 2002).