Being vulnerable : contemporary political thought /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: De Boever, Arne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023.
Series:Outspoken (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Subjects:
Sovereignty > Political aspects.
Souveraineté > Aspect politique.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Achille Mbembe.
Bonnie Honig.
Carl Schmitt.
Chantal Mouffe.
Eyal Weizman.
Giorgio Agamben.
Gregoire Chamayou.
Isabell Lorey.
Jasbir Puar.
Judith Butler.
Michel Foucault.
Santiago Zabala.
Sovereignty.
Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Walter Benjamin.
Wendy Brown.
anarchy.
biopolitics.
camp.
civil war.
democracy.
drone.
exception.
homo vulnerabilis.
indigeneity.
institution.
neoliberalism.
philosophy.
police.
wall.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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

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