Introduction:An Unknown Origin 1
The Festive Transgression 1
Freud's Social Contract 4
Sovereignty:A Non-concept? 6
PART 1 The Autocephalous State 11
1 Sovereignty and the Law 13
A Theory of Sovereignty 13
Sovereignty and Law 16
Sovereignty and the Juridical System 18
Sovereignty,Logic and Knowledge 22
Sovereignty and Science 25
2 Sovereignty and the State 27
Positivism and Law 27
Doctrine and State 31
The Theory of Two Sides 35
The Sovereignty of Law 40
3 Sovereignty Postulated 43
The(Political)Subject of Self-knowledge 43
The Foundation of Normative Validity 45
The Irreprehensible Lawgiver 48
The Nation as Contradiction 50
The Tribunal 53
'…legislation in its majesty…' 55
PART 2 Heterocephalous Power 59
4 The Ethos of Sovereignty 61
Sovereignty and Cooperation 61
Sovereignty and State 64
Sovereignty Externalized 67
Ethical Sovereignty 70
Sovereignty Against Sovereignty 74
5 Constituent Sovereignty 78
The Exception 78
Political Existence 81
Sovereignty and the Political 84
Sovereign Appropriation 89
Excursus:Hostility and Hospitality 93
6 Sovereignty,Discipline and Government 95
The Rationality of Law and Sovereignty 95
Discipline and Heterotopic Sovereignty 97
The Functions of an Incompatible Sovereignty 100
Government and the Power over Life 103
The Society of Normalization 108
The New Social Law 111
PART 3 The Acephalous Subject 113
7 Sovereignty as Absolute Knowledge 115
Groundless Self-determination 115
Mastery as Actuality 119
Plenitude and Enjoyment 122
Mastery as Sovereignty 128
8 Sovereignty as Non-knowledge 131
Architecture and Non-knowledge 131
Communication,Ecstasy and Community 135
The True Master 139
The Politics of the Impossible? 142
9 Sovereignty as jouissance 145
Freud's Science 145
The Pleasure Principle and Beyond 147
The Paternal Law 150
Usage and Usufruct 152
Woman and Sovereign Self-mastery 154
Notes 157
Bibliography 169
Books,Chapters and Articles 169
Cases and Official Documents 177
Index 178