Defective institutions : a protocol for the republic / Jacques Lezra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lezra, Jacques, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New institutionalism (Social sciences).

Social institutions.

Public institutions.

social institutions.

Place of Publication:

Fordham University Press 2024

Summary:

Defective Institutions overturns the basis of institutionalism. Faith in classic institutions--exposed as clamorously inadequate by the failure of governance under neoliberalism--does not result in greater democracy, greater horizontality, or more equitable living. Nor does trust in the standing of decisions, in the authority of antecedent cases, in the coherence, strength, continuity, or solidity of the institutions that frame and render legitimate these decisions and the rules they buttress. To the contrary: the classically-imagined institution and our faith in it lie at the heart of neoliberal unfreedom and racialized violence. Working at the point of contact and conflict between socialist and anarcho-philosophical traditions, Defective Institutions offers an alternative, which is also an alternative to the figures of governance associated with the liberal conception of the state: an aberrant republicanism comprised of defective institutions, run through with the necessity of their abolition. Lezra's book moves from the primitive scenes of Western political institution--the city; the family; the university; the first person; "race"--through recent work in the philosophy of translation, decolonial studies, abolitionism, Afropessimism and its critiques, psychoanalysis, and musicology.

Contents:

The schema of institution

Insufficient ground, or, the institution of reason

The object of allegory

Lacrimae rerum, or, the institution of grief

All cops are bastards

The schema of abolition

Abolish the family!

ISBN:

9781531507541

1531507549

9781531506926

1531506925