Critiquing Sovereign Violence: Law, Biopolitics and Bio-Juridicalism

By Gavin Rae

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474445284
• ISBN13: 9781474445283
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"