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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Love and the politics of sovereignty

Avi Sagi

pp. 79-100

Abstract

This chapter deals with the relationship between love and political sovereignty as seen from the perspective of the ethic of inner retreat. Whereas love is founded on the lover's inner retreat, political sovereignty stands for the opposite movement—the expansion of the subject, the sovereign, over a given territorial space. Through this complex question, I will reconsider the connection between love for the land and sovereignty over it, as well as the relationship at the center of the current discussion—between sovereignty and activity on the one hand and responsiveness and passivity on the other.

Publication details

Published in:

Sagi Avi (2018) Living with the other: the ethic of inner retreat. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 79-100

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99178-8_4

Full citation:

Sagi Avi (2018) Love and the politics of sovereignty, In: Living with the other, Dordrecht, Springer, 79–100.