This was a special one-time graduate seminar based on the research interests of my Ph.D. students.

Part One: Political Theory

Week 1: Hobbes

• Hobbes, T. 2011 (1651). Leviathan 霍布斯《利維坦》

Week 2: Discussion of Hobbes

• Springborg, P., ed. 2007. The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes’s Leviathan. (skip 5, 7, 11, 14, 17, 20, & 21)

Week 3: Schmitt

• Schmitt, C. 1985 (1922). Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty 卡爾·施密特《政治神學：主權學說四論》

Week 4: Foucault

• Foucault, M. 2003. “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976. 米歇爾‧福柯《必須保衛社會》

Week 5: Agamben

• Agamben, G. 1998. Homo Sacer 阿岡本 《神聖之人：主權權力與赤裸生命》

Week 6: Discussion of Foucault/Agamben

• Jennings, R. 2011. “Sovereignty and Political Modernity: A Genealogy of Agamben’s Critique of Sovereignty.” Anthropological Theory. 11(1).
• Mazower, Mark. “Foucault, Agamben: Theory and the Nazis.” Boundary 2 35, no. 1 (March 20, 2008): 23–34.
• Rifkin, Mark. “Indigenizing Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the‘ Peculiar’ Status of Native Peoples.” Cultural Critique 73, no. 1 (2009): 88–124.

Part Two: Indigenous Critique

Week 7: Barker

• Barker, J., ed. 2005. Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination.

Week 8: Shaw