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- Topic
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231193394
ISBN-13
9780231193399
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038260217
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Unbearable Life : a Genealogy of Political Erasure
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Subject
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Emigration & Immigration, History & Theory, Social History, Political, Civics & Citizenship, Movements / Critical Theory
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science, Science, History
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-005951
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
[A] compelling book . . . Bradley offers a very insightful perspective, combining authors from the field of political theology with theorists of biopolitics, such as Foucault, Judith Butler, and Giorgio Agamben. The result is a new, very distinctive interpretation of annihilating politics, past and present., In this book, Arthur Bradley identifies the antinomical point of crossing, hitherto obscure, between the paradigms of biopolitics and political theology in the sovereign prerogative of making life, or death, never happen. It is a conceptual passage of extreme interest that, by rethinking the performative role of negation, widens the boundaries of political ontology. The sources used--ancient, modern, and contemporary--place this work at the center of current philosophical and political debate., Arthur Bradley poses here a dramatic and unsettling challenge: to think a new natality. Not a renaissance, but a powerful call for 'future political children' to be born, who would break the cycles of a sovereign power intent on erasing countless existences that, beyond annihilation, would simply never have been. By way of Augustine, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Schmitt, and others, Unbearable Life presents us with a generalized martyrology, reading with unceasing insights the remarkable figures of Cacus and of Jephthah's daughter, of Robespierre and the Zapatistas, in order to diagnose and combat a nihilopolitics that, older and stronger than we wish to admit, very much persists today., Arthur Bradley poses here a dramatic and unsettling challenge: to think a new natality. Not a renaissance, but a powerful call for 'future political children' to be born, who would break the cycles of a sovereign power intent on erasing countless existences that, beyond annihilation, would simply never have been. By way of Augustine, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Schmitt, and others, Unbearable Life presents us with a generalized martyrology, reading with unceasing insights the remarkable figures of Cacus and of Jephthah's daughter, of Robespierre and the Zapatistas, in order to diagnose and combat a nihilopolitics that, older and stronger than we wish to admit, very much persists today, Bradley's book offers a highly original and distinctively new concept of life . . . [a] ground-breaking study., There is no 'murderous consent' organized by the state more radical and absolute than the one that declares the very existence of an individual or a community to be intolerable. What sovereign power then organizes is that individual or community's confinement to a state of inexistence that culminates in its erasure. Because such consent takes us to the heart of the modern theological-political imaginary, it is important to write its genealogy. Revisiting anew the thought of Foucault, Augustine, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Schmitt, and Benjamin, this is what the decisive analyses of Unbearable Lif e propose: a plunge into the roots of the violence that the contemporary world does not stop imposing upon us with increasing urgency.
Dewey Decimal
320.01
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Unbearable: Foucault and the Birth of Nihilopolitics 2. Ungood: Augustine's City of Cacus 3. Untimely Ripped: Macbeth's Children 4. Uncommon: Hobbes's Martyrs 5. Incorruptible: Robespierre and the Already Dead 6. Unleashed: Schmitt and the Katechon 7. Undead: Benjamin and the Past to Come Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Arthur Bradley explores the power to render life unlived from ancient Rome through the War on Terror. He argues that sovereignty is the power to decide what counts as being alive and what does not: to make life "unbearable," unrecognized as having lived or died., In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae , condemnation of memory. The Senate would decree that every trace of the citizen's existence be removed from the city as if they had never existed in the first place. Once reserved for individuals, damnatio memoriae in different forms now extends to social classes, racial and ethnic groups, and even entire peoples. In modern times, the condemned go by different names--"enemies of the people;" the "missing," the "disappeared," "ghost" detainees in "black sites"--but they are subject to the same fate of political erasure. Arthur Bradley explores the power to render life unlived from ancient Rome through the War on Terror. He argues that sovereignty is the power to decide what counts as being alive and what does not: to make life "unbearable," unrecognized as having lived or died. In readings of Augustine, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Robespierre, Schmitt, and Benjamin, Bradley asks: What is the "life" of this unbearable life? How does it change and endure across sovereign time and space, from empires to republics, from kings to presidents? To what extent can it be resisted or lived otherwise? A profoundly interdisciplinary and ambitious work, Unbearable Life rethinks sovereignty, biopolitics, and political theology to find the radical potential of a life that neither lives or dies.
LC Classification Number
JF801.B69 2019
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