Lacan, Deleuze and world politics : rethinking the ontology of the political subject / Andreja Zevnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zevnik, Andreja, author.

Series:

Interventions (Routledge (Firm))

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations.

Ontology--Political aspects.

Ontology.

Subject (Philosophy).

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physical Description:

xviii, 226 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

This book aims to re-think the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political, and does so by exploring the potentiality of Lacano-Deleuzian theoretical framework. It concerns a different ontology and a non-dualist understanding of political and legal existence, by focusing on questions such as how to think alternative notions of political existence and what kind of political, social and legal order do these come to create. This investigation into political appearance of subjects through concepts of law, body and life is led and influenced by the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan, as well as Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri and Slavoj Zizek. The book takes on various conceptualisations of life, explores the relationship between law and life and develops an alternative notion of legal and political existence in particular in the context of rights. On the back of Guantánamo's legal and political discourses this work aims to show why and how the problems of world politics or the limitations of (human) rights discourse require an engagement with questions such as what it means to exist as a human being, what forms of life are politically recognised, which are not, and why this distinction. By pointing to a different ontology for thinking and understanding global politics and demonstrating how a trans-disciplinary and philosophical approaches can foster the debates in world politics, this book will be of interest to postgraduates and scholars working on critical normative ideas in international politics, critical security studies and critical legal studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Law and life: the creation of the political and legal subject 23

2 Ontology of life and the limit of thought 54

3 Appearance in the world I: Guantánamo and logics of bodily-becomings 73

4 Appearing in the world II: Guantánamo and expressions of the self 106

5 Images of law in Guantánamo: from a legal case to a new idea of law 130

6 An image of new ontology for world politics and the political subject 162.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138192713

1138192716

OCLC:

929917826