The Penitent State: Exposure, Mourning and the Biopolitics of National Healing

by Paul Muldoon

This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures - especially the gesture of apology - becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do they carry for the way power is exercised?

Drawing on the work of Schmitt, Foucault and Agamben, the book argues that there is more at stake in sovereign acts of repentance and redress than either the recognition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198831625
• ISBN13: 9780198831624
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.0"