Reading texts on sovereignty: textual moments in the history of political thought

Introduction / Stella Achilleos and Antonis Balasopoulos, (both University of Cyprus, Cyprus) -- 1. Aristotle / Kazukata Inamura, (Waseda University, Japan) -- 2. Polybius / Brian McGing, (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) -- 3. Roman sovereignty / Daniel Lee, (University of California Berkeley, USA) -- 4. Thomas Aquinas and Marsilius of Padua / Vasileios Syros, (Academy of Finland, Finland) -- 5. Theories of sovereignty in medieval Islam / Muhammad Ali Khalidi, (York University, UK) -- 6. Christine de Pizan / Karen Green, (University of Melbourne, Australia) -- 7. Jean Bodin / TBC -- 8. William Shakespeare / Stella Achilleos, (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) -- 9. Hugo Grotius / Marco Barducci, (Independent Scholar) -- 10. Charles I and Henry Parker / Alan Cromartie, (University of Reading, UK) -- 11. Thomas Hobbes / Quentin Skinner, (Queen Mary College, University of London, UK) -- 12. John Locke / Jacqueline Rose, (University of St Andrews, UK) -- 13. Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Christopher Bertram, (University of Bristol, UK) -- 14. The debate on the US Constitution / Carmen E. Pavel, (King's College London, UK) -- 15. Thomas Paine / Peter Linebaugh, (University of Toledo, Spain) -- 16. Percy Bysshe Shelley / Georgina Green, (University of York, UK) -- 17. Johann Kaspar Bluntschli / Duncan Kelly, (University of Cambridge, UK) -- 18. José Martí / Rosaura Sǹchez, (University of California San Diego, USA) -- 19. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (Lenin) / Antonis Balasopoulos, (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) -- 20. Carl Schmitt / Andreas Kalyvas, (New School for Social Research, USA) -- 21. Hannah Arendt / Peg Birmingham, (DePaul University, USA) -- 22. Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben / Stuart Elden, (University of Warwick, UK) -- 23. Jacques Derrida / James R. Martel, (San Francisco State University, USA) -- 24. Léopold Sédar Senghor / Gary Wilder, (CUNY, USA) -- 25. The debate on Catalonian sovereignty / Victor Ferreres Comell, (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction Stella Achilleos and Antonis Balasopoulos -- References -- 1 The Book of Lord Shang on the Origins of the State -- Notes -- 2 Aristotle on Sovereignty -- Notes -- 3 Divided Sovereignty Polybius and the Compound Constitution -- Notes -- 4 Reading Sovereignty in Augustus' Res gestae -- Reading the Res gestae -- Notes -- 5 Al-Fa¯ra¯bı ¯ The Sovereignty of the Philosopher-King -- Notes -- 6 Marsilius of Padua on Sovereignty -- Notes -- 7 The King "Should Be" Sovereign Christine de Pizan and the Problem of Sovereignty in Fifteenth-Century France -- Notes -- 8 Jean Bodin's République -- Notes -- 9 Hugo Grotius Absolutism, Contractualism, Resistance -- Notes -- 10 Shakespeare on Sovereignty, Indivisibility, and Popular Consent -- Notes -- 11 Sovereignty and the Separation of Powers on the Eve of the English Civil War Henry Parker's Observations and Charles' Answer to the XIX Propositions -- Notes -- 12 Thomas Hobbes, Sovereign Representation, and the English Revolution -- Notes -- 13 John Locke and the Language of Sovereignty -- Notes -- 14 Rousseau's Sovereignty as the General Will -- Notes -- 15 Sovereignty in the American Founding -- Notes -- 16 Thomas Paine Reinventing Popular Sovereignty in an Age of Revolutions -- Notes -- 17 Sovereignty and Political Obligation T. H. Green's Critique of John Austin -- Notes -- 18 Divided Sovereignties Lenin and Dual Power -- Notes -- 19 Carl Schmitt and the Sovereignty of Decision -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- 20 Arendt on Sovereignty -- Notes -- 21 Foucault and Agamben on Sovereignty Taking Life, Letting Live, or Making Survive -- Notes -- 22 Derrida on the "Slow and Differentiated" Deconstruction of Sovereignty -- Notes -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX.