On Homo Sacer
Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. pp. 199. Paperback.
This is really an important work on sovereignty. Although he is writing for other philosophers and theorists, a serious weakness is his constant name-dropping of obscure classical and medieval thought. This really isn’t an approachable book, and it takes some time of close reading to get the point.