英文摘要 |
The book unfolds through the themes Liu enumerates above. A first chapter, entitled 'The Semiotic Turn in International Politics,' offers a discussion of the two themes that are central to Liu's argument, sovereignty and the linguistic encounter. The discussion of sovereignty is heavily inflected with poststructuralist notions of the relationship between sovereignty, subjectivity and desire. The author's goal, ultimately, is to inject into poststructuralist discussions a sense of the fundamental part played by colonialism in modern 'sovereign thinking.' The question of the 'international in the national,' with which the author concludes the chapter, raises an important question about which I will say more below. |