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Sovereignty in ruins : a politics of crisis / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sovereignty.
- World politics.
- Crisis management in government.
- Biopolitics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham NC Duke University Press 2017
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory, Sovereignty in Ruins presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought is itself an agent of crisis. Aiming to develop a political vocabulary capable of critiquing and transforming contemporary political frameworks, the contributors advance a politics of crisis that collapses the false dichotomies between sovereignty and governmentality and between critique and crisis. Their essays address a wide range of topics, such as the role history plays in the development of a politics of crisis; Arendt's controversial judgment of Adolf Eichmann; Strauss's and Badiou's readings of Plato's Laws; the acceptance of the unacceptable; the human and nonhuman; and flesh as a biopolitical category representative of the ongoing crisis of modernity.
- Contents:
- Natural history : toward a politics of crisis / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek
- Left and right: why they still make sense / Carlo Galli
- Politics in the present / Roberto Esposito
- Cujusdam nigri & scabiosi Brasiliani : Rancière and Derrida / Alberto Moreiras
- Pasolini's acceptance / Rei Terada
- Reopening the Plato question / Adam Sitze
- The royal remains : the people's two bodies and the endgames of sovereignty / Eric L. Santner
- Arendt : thinking cohabitation and the dispersion of sovereignty / Judith Butler
- Beyond the state of exception : Hegel on freedom, law, and decision / Andrew Norris
- Humans and (other) animals in a biopolitical frame / Cary Wolfe
- Thing-politics and science / Carsten Strathausen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822363170
- 0822363178
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