Critiquing sovereign violence : law, biopolitics, and bio-juridicalism / Gavin Rae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rae, Gavin, 1982- author.

Contributor:

Edinburgh University Press.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty.

Political violence.

Biopolitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Gavin Rae offers an original approach to sovereign violence by looking at a wide range of thinkers, which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form the radical-juridical perspective; Foucault and Agamben the biopolitical; Derrida the bio-juridical - which Rae argues produces the most nuanced account.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Classic-Juridical Model

PART I The Radical-Juridical Critique

CHAPTER 1 Critiquing Violence: Benjamin on Law and the Divine

CHAPTER 2 Divinity within the Law: Schmitt on the Violence of Sovereignty

CHAPTER 3 Violence and Power: Arendt on the Logic of Totalitarianism

CHAPTER 4 Disrupting Sovereignty: Deleuze and Guattari on the War Machine

PART II The Biopolitical Critique

CHAPTER 5 From Law to Life: Foucault, Sovereignty, and Biopolitical Racism

CHAPTER 6 Life Excluded from Law: Agamben, Biopolitics, and Civil War

PART III The Bio-Juridical Critique

CHAPTER 7 Life and Law: Derrida on the Bio-Juridicalism of Sovereign Violence

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-6514-5

1-4744-4530-6

OCLC:

1306538831