Poststructuralism and International Relations : : Bringing the Political Back In / / Jenny Edkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Edkins, Jenny,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Perspectives on World Politics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (164 p.)

Offering a sophisticated introduction to the major poststructuralist thinkers, this book shows how Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and i ek expose the depoliticization found in conventional international relations theory. Edkins argues that, contrary to the opinions of their detractors, the poststructuralists are concerned with the big questions of international politics: it is precisely their work that analyzes the political and explains the processes of depoliticization and technologization. Paying particular attention to notions of the subject and subjectivity in relation to the political, and to the relationship between ideology and social reality, Edkins explores, in short, why Foucault and others matter for international relations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 Politics, Subjectivity, and Depoliticization -- 2 Decentering the Subject -- 3 Foucault's Docile Bodies -- 4 Derrida and the Force of Law -- 5 The Lacanian Subject -- 6 Ideology and Reality in Zizek -- 7 The Political and Repoliticization -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book