Being Vulnerable : Contemporary Political Thought.
De Boever, Arne.
Being Vulnerable : Contemporary Political Thought. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (231 pages) - Outspoken Series ; v.4 . - Outspoken Series .
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Backward Foreword -- PART ONE A Critique of Sovereignty -- 1 Carl Schmitt Ups the Ante -- 2 Foucault with Schmitt -- 3 Giorgio Agamben's Civil War -- 4 Radical Benjamin -- PART TWO Four Paradigms of Sovereignty -- 5 The Camp -- 6 The Wall -- 7 The Police -- 8 The Drone -- PART THREE Sovereignty and Vulnerability -- 9 Homo Vulnerabilis -- 10 Democracy's Exceptions -- 11 Engage the Institution -- 12 Indigenous Sovereignties -- Notes -- Index.
Interrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both the cause of our vulnerabilization and the tool of its prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how today's experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a collective human power that dismantles the form of sovereignty that is producing this state of affairs.
9780228016304
Electronic books.
Being Vulnerable : Contemporary Political Thought. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (231 pages) - Outspoken Series ; v.4 . - Outspoken Series .
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Backward Foreword -- PART ONE A Critique of Sovereignty -- 1 Carl Schmitt Ups the Ante -- 2 Foucault with Schmitt -- 3 Giorgio Agamben's Civil War -- 4 Radical Benjamin -- PART TWO Four Paradigms of Sovereignty -- 5 The Camp -- 6 The Wall -- 7 The Police -- 8 The Drone -- PART THREE Sovereignty and Vulnerability -- 9 Homo Vulnerabilis -- 10 Democracy's Exceptions -- 11 Engage the Institution -- 12 Indigenous Sovereignties -- Notes -- Index.
Interrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both the cause of our vulnerabilization and the tool of its prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how today's experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a collective human power that dismantles the form of sovereignty that is producing this state of affairs.
9780228016304
Electronic books.