Sovereignty in Ruins : A Politics of Crisis / George Edmondson, Klaus Mladek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edmondson, George, editor.

Mladek, Klaus, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

George Edmondson is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College and the author of The Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson.Klaus Mladek is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Dartmouth College and the editor of Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution.

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. Altering the terms through which political action may take place, the contributors think through new notions of the political that advance countermodels of biopolitics, radical democracy, and humanity. Contributors. Judith Butler, George Edmondson, Roberto Esposito, Carlo Galli, Klaus Mladek, Alberto Moreiras, Andrew Norris, Eric L. Santner, Adam Sitze, Carsten Strathausen, Rei Terada, Cary Wolfe

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sovereignty Crises

Part I Ruination and Revolution

Chapter 1 Natural History: Toward a Politics of Crisis

Part II Italian Affirmations

Chapter 2 Left and Right: Why They Still Make Sense

Chapter 3 Politics in the Present

Chapter 4 Cujusdam nigri & scabiosi Brasiliani: Rancière and Derrida

Chapter 5 Pasolini’s Acceptance

Part III The Endgames of Sovereignty

Chapter 6 Reopening the Plato Question

Chapter 7 The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty

Chapter 8 Arendt: Thinking Cohabitation and the Dispersion of Sovereignty

Chapter 9 Beyond the State of Exception: Hegel on Freedom, Law, and Decision

Chapter 10 Humans and (Other) Animals in a Biopolitical Frame

Chapter 11 Thing-Politics and Science

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091066

1478091061

OCLC:

959080872

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373391