Critiquing Sovereign Violence: Law, Biopolitics and Bio-Juridicalism

Gavin Rae

Critiquing Sovereign Violence: Law, Biopolitics and Bio-Juridicalism
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 February 2021
Pages
232
ISBN
9781474445290

Critiquing Sovereign Violence: Law, Biopolitics and Bio-Juridicalism

Gavin Rae

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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