Critiquing Sovereign Violence : Law, Biopolitics, Bio-Juridicalism

Rae, Gavin

Edinburgh University Press（2021/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474445290
• DDC分類 320.1501

Full Description

Gavin 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.

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Classic-Juridical Model

Part I: The Radical-Juridical Critique

1. Critiquing Violence: Walter Benjamin on Law and the Divine

2. Divinity within the Law: Carl Schmitt on the Violence of Sovereignty

3. Violence and Power: Arendt on the Logic of Totalitarianism

4. Disrupting Sovereignty: Deleuze and Guattari on the War Machine

Part II: The Biopolitical Critique

5. From Law to Life: Foucault, Sovereignty, and Biopolitical Racism

6. Agamben on Sovereignty, Biopolitics, and Civil War

Part III: The Bio-Juridical Critique

7. Life and Law: Derrida on the Bio-Juridicalism of Sovereign Violence

Conclusion

Bibliography; Index