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

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, biopolit...

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