Critiquing Sovereign Violence : : Law, Biopolitics and Bio-Juridicalism / / Gavin Rae.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Rae, Gavin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Criticises the historically dominant classic–juridical model of sovereign violence and defends a bio-juridical model insteadWorks across the disciplines of critical theory, political theory, biopolitical theory, poststructuralism and deconstruction Develops three models – radical-juridical, biopolitical, and bio-juridical – to understand contemporary debates Situates current thinking in relation to the classic–juridical model, thereby linking contemporary debates to historical onesMoves beyond the dominant biopolitical model to a bio-juridical paradigmGavin 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. Rae engages with new translations of 'The Beast and the Sovereign' and 'The Death Penalty' to show that Derrida offers a radical and alternative angle in which violence is placed between law and life, simultaneously creating and regulating each through the other."

Table of 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