Sovereignty in ruins : : a politics of crisis / / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Edmondson, George, 1964-; Mladek, Klaus,
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (361 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Natural history : toward a politics of crisis / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek -- Left and right: why they still make sense / Carlo Galli -- Politics in the present / Roberto Esposito -- Cujusdam nigri & scabiosi Brasiliani : Rancière and Derrida / Alberto Moreiras -- Pasolini's acceptance / Rei Terada -- Reopening the Plato question / Adam Sitze -- The royal remains : the people's two bodies and the endgames of sovereignty / Eric L. Santner -- Arendt : thinking cohabitation and the dispersion of sovereignty / Judith Butler -- Beyond the state of exception : Hegel on freedom, law, and decision / Andrew Norris -- Humans and (other) animals in a biopolitical frame / Cary Wolfe -- Thing-politics and science / Carsten Strathausen.