02325 a2200433 4500 1138950769 20250317100416.0 250312042015GB eng 9781138950764 Taylor & Francis GBP 45.99 BB 01 eng LAF thema JPA thema LAB thema QDTS thema JPFK thema LAF bic JPA bic LAB bic HPS bic JPFK bic LAW000000 bisac LAW018000 bisac LAW052000 bisac LAW109000 bisac LAW111000 bisac POL007000 bisac POL010000 bisac POL022000 bisac POL040000 bisac 320.15 bisac Amnon Lev Sovereignty and Liberty A Study of the Foundations of Power 1 Oxford Routledge 20150723 224 p The attitude we take to power is almost invariably one of distrust, never more so than when it claims to be sovereign. And yet, we have always been drawn to sovereignty. Out of fear or fascination, we accepted that it was a condition of our liberty; that to assert ourselves as free, we would have to work not against but through sovereign power. This book retraces the history of the implication of sovereignty and liberty, an implication that has shaped the way we live together, as individuals and as political beings. Shedding new light on the work of key political and constitutional thinkers, including Marsilius of Padua, Hobbes, Hegel, Kelsen, and Schmitt, it identifies the conceptual operations that created sovereignty and shows how subjection to an absolute and undivided power came to be a source of meaning. At the heart of the analysis is the idea that sovereignty made reference to and relied upon a form of faith which aligned man’s political existence on law. Offering new and often controversial insights into the grounds of our attachment to sovereign power and into the crisis that is currently affecting its institutions, this book will appeal to students and scholars of law, politics, history of philosophy, and the social sciences. 2964 2964