Critiquing Sovereign Violence: Law, Biopolitics and Bio-Juridicalism

Gavin Rae

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Critiquing Sovereign Violence

Law, Biopolitics and Bio-Juridicalism

Gavin Rae

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474445306

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Criticises the historically dominant classic–juridical model of sovereign violence and defends a bio-juridical model instead

Works across the disciplines of critical theory, political theory, biopolitical theory, poststructuralism and deconstruction
Develops three models – radical-juridical, biopolitical, and bio-juridical – to understand contemporary debates
Situates current thinking in relation to the classic–juridical model, thereby linking contemporary debates to historical ones
Moves beyond the dominant biopolitical model to a bio-juridical paradigm

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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Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Introduction: The Classic-Juridical Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I The Radical-Juridical Critique
CHAPTER 1 Critiquing Violence: Benjamin on Law and the Divine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
CHAPTER 2 Divinity within the Law: Schmitt on the Violence of Sovereignty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
CHAPTER 3 Violence and Power: Arendt on the Logic of Totalitarianism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
CHAPTER 4 Disrupting Sovereignty: Deleuze and Guattari on the War Machine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
PART II The Biopolitical Critique
CHAPTER 5 From Law to Life: Foucault, Sovereignty, and Biopolitical Racism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
CHAPTER 6 Life Excluded from Law: Agamben, Biopolitics, and Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
PART III The Bio-Juridical Critique
CHAPTER 7 Life and Law: Derrida on the Bio-Juridicalism of Sovereign Violence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474445306