The Potomac Center Fall Symposium: The End of Sovereignty?

The concept of nation-state sovereignty has been near the core of modern politics and modern theories of politics. The fecund notion of sovereignty as supreme authority has functioned as the norm and measure for both state power and also somewhat surprisingly for individual subjectivity as well. Sovereignty, in the most common acceptations, denotes the conjoint status of independence and supremacy; it arguably underwrites both theories of empire and modern individualism.

Join speakers Jane Bennett, Patchen Markell, and Mick Smith to discuss "Walt Whitman and the Soft Voice of Sympathy," "Decomposing Sovereignty," and "The Natural History of Creation and the Theological Nature of Sovereignty."

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