Critiquing Sovereign Violence
Author | : Rae Gavin Rae |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2019-04-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781474445313 |
ISBN-13 | : 1474445314 |
Rating | : 4/5 (314 Downloads) |
Download or read book Critiquing Sovereign Violence written by Rae Gavin Rae and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.