Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
8-2022
Abstract
If a world is to be lived in, it must be founded. This foundational function belongs to the sovereign imagination. What a polity names as sovereign in the state of exception, when the sacred irrupts anew, is a matter of individual and collective responsibility. In this dispensation, law, politics, and religion become inescapably entangled in metaphysics. It behooves us to understand the nature and consequences of this state of affairs.
Recommended Citation
Sherwin, Richard K., "Sovereign Imaginaries: Visualizing the Sacred Foundation of Law’s Authority" (2022). Articles & Chapters. 1541.
https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/fac_articles_chapters/1541
Comments
Chapter 3 in Law as Religion, Religion as Law, pages 53-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108760997
Cambridge University Press 2022
www.cambridge.org/9781108486538