The Social Power of Bodin's 'Sovereignty' and International Law
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Abstract
The word sovereignty provides a forceful example of the social power of language, as an organic instrument playing a leading role in the continuous and continuing process of creating and transforming human reality. The paper examines a pivotal episode in the history of the word sovereignty - its formal introduction in the 16th century by Jean Bodin with Six Livres de la Republique. It focuses on the social effect sovereignty has had on the shared consciousness of humanity, including that of the international community. The proposed metalogical inquiry adopts a method which draws from the hermeneutic school of historical knowledge. The argument is that Bodin used sovereignty for the purpose of attributing to the ruler (the French King) supreme power in the hierarchical organisational structure of society. This idea of pyramid of authority is found in the different elements of the discourse in Six Livres, which is examined in the immediate context of Bodin's personal background as well as the extended social, political and intellectual context of 16th century France. The conclusion shows that Bodin's work was the first seminal step in the development of the contemporary ideas of internal sovereignty and external sovereignty. It is thus part of the history of the true power that the word at hand has exercised in framing the international state system and hence the international legal system.
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.000 |
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