A Philosophical History of Police Power / Melayna Kay Lamb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, Melayna Kay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law enforcement--Philosophy.

Law enforcement.

Police power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

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Summary:

Rethinking the philosophical grounds of police power, Melayna Lamb argues that traditional ideas of sovereignty and the law need to be radically re-evaluated. In placing police at the centre of analysis this book demonstrates the manner in which police power exists in a complex and overlapping relationship with sovereignty and law in a form which is not reducible to implementation. In doing this it argues for the centrality of order in any consideration of police and challenging a common narrative whereby a dynamic, interventionist sovereign power that follows from a belief of order as 'artificial' is replaced by a liberal, limited non-interventionist sovereign power that proceeds from a 'natural' order. Moving through thinkers such as Hobbes, Hegel and Adam Smith the book argues that police power is in fact an-archic in form, in a manner that makes it impossible to hold accountable through the law. Lamb adopts an interdisciplinary approach that turns to philosophy to make sense of global events that see police power at their centre. This includes the history of police brutality in the US, the structural injustices made more apparent by COVID-19 and the growing calls to abolish the police.

Contents:

Acknowledgements Introduction Sovereign Police? Oikonomia The end of Oikonomia? The Argument The Structure Prologue: Foucault, Smith and Disappearing Police Archaeology and Order Biopolitics, Discipline and Order Order: Physis or Nomos? 1. Sovereignty and Fear: Hobbes and the Production of Order The Political Animal vs. the Wolf (Dis)order, Teleology and the Life of the State Living and Living Well The Splitting of Power 2. Hegel and Police: On the Relation between Universal and Particular The Hegelian State Hegel's Polizei Fichte's Police Hegel on Fichte's Police Polizei, Police, Police-Power Violence, Nature and Hegel's Emergency 3. Law, Sovereignty and the Exception: Benjamin and Modern Police Schmitt's Sovereign The Transcendent made Immanent: Benjamin's response Violence and Critique Benjamin's Police Force of Law 4. The Anarchy of Order: Agamben and the Police Divided Power and Oikonomia Fate, Government and Collateral Effects The Signature of Order The An-archic Character of Police Power Potentiality, Exceptionality, Police 5. da Silva: Nature, Necessity and Violence The Racial and the Modern Police Power and Colonial Boomerangs Revisiting the State of Nature Time and Anti-Black Violence Concluding Remarks Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Lamb, Melayna Kay A Philosophical History of Police Power

ISBN:

9781350204072

1350204072

9781350204058

1350204056

OCLC:

1414455132