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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
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Contents:
Introduction. Sovereignty crises / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek -- Part I. Ruination and revolution. Natural history : toward a politics of crisis / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek -- Part II. Italian affirmations. Left and right : why they still make sense / Carlo Galli -- Politics in the present / Roberto Esposito -- Cujusdam nigri & scabiosi Brasiliani : Ranciere and Derrida / Alberto Moreiras -- Pasolini's acceptance / Rei Terada -- Part III. The endgames of sovereignty. Reopening the Plato question / Adam Sitze -- The royal remains : the people's two bodies and the endgames of sovereignty / Eric L. Santner -- Arendt : thinking cohabitation and the dispersion of sovereignty / Judith Butler -- Beyond the state of exception : Hegel on freedom, law, and decision / Andrew Norris -- Humans and (other) animals in a biopolitical frame / Cary Wolfe -- Thing-politics and science / Carsten Strathausen.
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.
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Introduction. Sovereignty crises / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek -- Part I. Ruination and revolution. Natural history : toward a politics of crisis / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek -- Part II. Italian affirmations. Left and right : why they still make sense / Carlo Galli -- Politics in the present / Roberto Esposito -- Cujusdam nigri & scabiosi Brasiliani : Ranciere and Derrida / Alberto Moreiras -- Pasolini's acceptance / Rei Terada -- Part III. The endgames of sovereignty. Reopening the Plato question / Adam Sitze -- The royal remains : the people's two bodies and the endgames of sovereignty / Eric L. Santner -- Arendt : thinking cohabitation and the dispersion of sovereignty / Judith Butler -- Beyond the state of exception : Hegel on freedom, law, and decision / Andrew Norris -- Humans and (other) animals in a biopolitical frame / Cary Wolfe -- Thing-politics and science / Carsten Strathausen.

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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.

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