Sovereignty in Ruins A Politics of Crisis

• Other Authors: Edmondson, George (Editor), Mladek, Klaus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Durham NC Duke University Press 2017
• Subjects: Social & political philosophy; Philosophy; Biopolitics; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Karl Marx; Michel Foucault; Sovereignty
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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.