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Wild materialism : the ethic of terror and the modern republic / Jacques Lezra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- 1960- Lezra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 320 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1版.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- Opening a groundbreaking methodological dialogue between Freud's work and Althusser's late understanding of aleatory materialism, Lezra shows how an ethic of terror, and in the political sphere a radically democratic republic, can be built on what he calls 'wild materialism'.
- Contents:
- Terrible ethics
- The ethic of terror
- Phares; or, divisible sovereignty
- The logic of sovereignty
- Materia in the critique of autonomy
- A Sadean community
- Three women, three bombs
- Distracted republic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-3588-2
- 0-8232-3237-9
- OCLC:
- 680628930
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