Sovereignty in Ruins
A Politics of Crisis
Contributor(s)
Edmondson, George (editor)
Mladek, Klaus (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
100691Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Philosophy; Biopolitics; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Karl Marx; Michel Foucault; SovereigntyDOI
10.1215/9780822373391ISBN
9780822373391OCN
959080872Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham NC, 2017-04-07Classification
Social and political philosophy