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Critiquing Sovereign Violence

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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.

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ISBN: 9781474445290
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Author: Gavin Rae
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 232 pages
Genres: Social and political philosophy
Western philosophy from c 1800
Violence and abuse in society
Political science and theory
Methods, theory and philosophy of law
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
Jurisprudence and general issues

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