Mansfield Bastard Politics

Sovereignty and Violence
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8166-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mansfield, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Sovereignty: The Law of Misrule

2. Bataille and Sovereignty: The Apotheosis of Violence

3. Divine Violence and Justice

4. Derrida on Sovereignty

5. Sovereignty and Hospitality

6. Bastard Politics: Sovereignty and Violence

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nick Mansfield is Honorary Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of several books, including The God Who Deconstructs Himself: Subjectivity and Sovereignty between Freud, Bataille and Derrida and Theorizing War: From Hobbes to Badiou.