PhD defence: Lotte List
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In order to obtain the PhD degree, Lotte List has submitted her thesis entitled:
This thesis develops the concept of crisis sovereignty through an examination of the conceptual link between state sovereignty and crisis time. It centers on the Weimar era writings of the juridical thinker Carl Schmitt and his definition of sovereignty as the power to decide on the exception. The sovereign exception in this definition, the thesis claims, denotes simultaneously the exceptional historical situation and the exceptional juridical means to overcome this situation, and thus sovereignty is caught in a constitutive contradiction. Through a critical reading of Schmitt, the thesis uncovers a dialectical relationship between sovereignty and crisis, arguing that this dialectic on the one hand enforces a totalizing notion of sovereign power, and on the other hand reproduces a narrative of modernity as crisis temporality.
Primary Supervisor:Associate Professor Stefan Schwarzkopf Department of Business Humanities and Law Copenhagen Business School Secondary Supervisor: Professor Mitchell Dean Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy Copenhagen Business School Assessment Committee: Associate Professor Mathias Hein Jessen (Chair) Department of Business Humanities and Law Copenhagen Business School
Professor Janet Roitman College of Business and Law RMIT University Melbourne
Professor Mikkel Thorup School of Culture and Society University of Aarhus
Thesis:The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk Reception:The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in Atrium. |
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