Critiques of Sovereignty and Power

This topic has been folded into State Theory and Totalitarianism, which gathers the Schmitt material (sovereignty, the state of exception, the friend/enemy distinction) and the Foucault material (disciplinary power, biopower) here alongside Oppenheimer and Tilly on conquest and war-making and Arendt on totalitarianism. Follow that hub for the full map. This page is kept as a redirect so existing links stay stable.

See Also

• State Theory and Totalitarianism - the hub this topic was folded into

Sources

• Political Theology - sovereignty and exception
• The Concept of the Political - friend/enemy distinction
• Discipline and Punish - disciplinary power and panopticism
• Society Must Be Defended - biopower and population