From Empire's law to the multitude's rights: Law, representation, revolution

Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 95-120

  Passavant, Paul A ^a  

^a HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

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References (28)

1. For evidence of this trend, see Stanley Fish, The Trouble with Principle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999);
2. Left Legalism/Left Critique, ed. Wendy Brown and Janet Halley (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002);
3. Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (New York: Routledge, 1997).
4. For a strategic critique, see Paul A.Passavant and Jodi Dean, "Laws and Societies," Constellations 8 (2001):376-389; for a descriptive critique
5. see Paul A.Passavant, "Enchantment, Aesthetics, and the Superficial Powers of Modern Law," Law & Society Review 35 (2001):709-729.
6. Gilles Deleuze, "Control and Becoming," and "Postscript on Control Societies," in Negotiations: 1972-1990, trans. Martin Joughin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).
7. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), 170-175.
8. Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985), 13.
9. Paul A.Passavant, "Enchantment, Aesthetics, and the Superficial Powers of Modern Law," 721, 724. For a fuller discussion of Agamben
10. see Peter Fitzpatrick, "Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law," Theory and Event 5 (2001).
11. Michel Foucault, "On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress," in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: Pantheon, 1984): 343.
12. For a discussion of the American appropriation of this script, see Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967);
13. Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 (New York: Norton, 1972);
14. H.Trevor Colbourn, The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1965).
15. Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (New York: Knopf, 1997), compares the American declarations with their precedents in British constitutional history, particularly the 1689 Declaration of Rights. For a discussion of the persistence of this discourse in early American politics
16. see Lance Banning, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978);
17. J.G.A.Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975).
18. John Adams, Novanglus and Massachusettensis (1774-1775) (Boston: Hews and Goss, 1819), 96-97.
19. Thomas Jefferson, "A Summary View of the Rights of British America" (1774), in The Complete Jefferson, ed. Saul Padover (New York: Tudor, 1943).
20. On the question of identity, see William Connolly, Identity\Difference (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991).
21. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (New York: Viking Press, 1963);
22. Bonnie Honig, "Declarations of Independence: Arendt and Derrida on the Problem of Founding a Republic," ed. Frederick Dolan and Thomas Dumm, Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, 1993).
23. John Dickinson, "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" (1767), in Empire and Nation, ed. Forrest McDonald (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962), 18.
24. John Adams, "Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law," in The Works of John Adams, vol. 3, ed. Charles Francis Adams (Boston: Little & Brown, 1851), 456, 462.
25. Martin Luther King, Jr., "The American Dream" (1961), in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. James M.Washington (New York: HarperCollins, 1986), 208.
26. See, generally, Jacques Derrida, "Force of Law: The 'Mystical Foundation of Authority,'" in Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, ed. Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, and David Gray Carlson (New York: Routledge, 1992);
27. Derrida, Spectres of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International (New York: Routledge, 1994).
28. For a discussion of "nodal points," see Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Toward a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso, 1985), 112-113. See also 142, 177, 188-189.