Anomie of the Walls and the Concealed Nomos of the Earth: The Geometry of Modern Political Theory
Subject Areas : Philosophy
Keywords: wall, Nation-state, post-Westphalian, Nomos, anomy,
Abstract :
This paper works with the assumptions that the modern political theory is based on geometry: the ‎political geometry of the inside and outside. It also considers that the fundamental concept of ‎political philosophy is neither freedom nor political power but borders. In this framework, the paper aims to understand the locus and ‎spaces that are problematic for nation-state sovereignty and it is concerned with the political ‎status of groups of people that have challenged the juridical and political limits of nation-states. ‎It calls these people "stateless" and "non-state" people. These groups are not the topic of this paper but they offer the possibility to understand ‎the decline of nation-state sovereignty in the "post-Westphalian" order‏. The paper tries to trace the waning of sovereignty in this new global order and demonstrates that, ‎as nation-state sovereignty wanes, states and sovereignty come apart from one another. And ‎through this, we reach the concealed nomos of the political space within which we still live: "Boundary ‎Walls". ‎This paper shows that the nomos of the earth is defined by the Walls. It concludes that, the location of these vertical ‎structures is an anomic space. Further, it will be explained that such a structure taken to mark and ‎enforce an inside/outside distinction appears as a self-‎defeating paradox. Indeed, there is a struggle for anomic zone of suspension so that ‎we can think of a kind of Politics of Resistance. The agenda of the paper is thus to restart ‎from the structural facts, to measure the changes that have occurred and to ask once again what the role of ‎politics can contribute in this context
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