Sovereignty in Ruins : A Politics of Crisis /

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 tran...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Sovereignty crises / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek
  • Part I. Ruination and revolution. Natural history : toward a politics of crisis / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek
  • Part II. Italian affirmations. Left and right : why they still make sense / Carlo Galli
  • Politics in the present / Roberto Esposito
  • Cujusdam nigri & scabiosi Brasiliani : Ranciere and Derrida / Alberto Moreiras
  • Pasolini's acceptance / Rei Terada
  • Part III. The endgames of sovereignty. 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.