The God Who Deconstructs Himself: Sovereignty and Subjectivity Between Freud, Bataille, and Derrida

by Nick Mansfield

Book Overview

No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the 'war on terror, ' the issue of the extent and the nature of the sovereign has given theoretical debates their currency and urgency. New thinking on sovereignty has always imagined the styles of human selfhood that each regime involves. Each denomination of sovereignty requires a specific mode...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823232425
• ISBN13: 9780823232420
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.9"