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Being Vulnerable : Contemporary Political Thought.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Outspoken SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (231 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780228016304
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Being VulnerableOnline resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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