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Being vulnerable : contemporary political thought /

"We are living in a time of heightened vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, Black Lives Matter to Me Too, and safe spaces to trigger warnings--and let's not forget the pandemic: in each of these phenomena, homo vulnerabilis is coming to...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: De Boever, Arne (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023.
Collection:Outspoken (McGill-Queen's University Press)
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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