تحديات من قراءة فلسطينية لمفهوم السيادة الحديث عند هوبس وروسو

The speaker presents a Palestinian challenge to the concept of sovereignty as formulated by the founding celebrants Hobbes and Rousseau. Within a dissolving Middle East, it is imperative to critique the concept of sovereignty which dominates the modern political imagination. The proposed critique draws on resources from the Palestinian experience and from the past and present of the Arab-Muslim tradition. It endeavors to generate possibilities for restoring humility to governances and inducing a more genuine flourishing of persons, polities, and the planet.

The speaker’s point of departure is the hegemony of the modern concept of sovereignty which is dissociable from the molecular principle of indivisibility. He argues that in sovereignty regimes there is an inherent denial of the possibility of human self-oppression, a denial that attenuates ethical orientations to fragility, finitude, and revelation.