Critiquing Sovereign Violence - by Gavin Rae (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>A unique angle on the topic of sovereignty and violence Sovereign violence is a dominant issue in contemporary political theory and has attracted much attention from proponents of biopolitics, critical theory, deconstruction and post-structuralism. Gavin Rae offers an original approach to the topic 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 are biopolitical and Derrida is bio-juridical. Gavin Rae offers an original approach to the topic by looking at a wide range of thinkers which he organises into three models: the radical-juridical perspective (Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari); biopolitical (Foucault and Agamben); and bio-juridical (Derrida). Rae engages with new translations of Derrida's late seminars on The Beast and the Sovereign as well as 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. Gavin Rae is Conex Marie Sklodowska-Curie Experienced Research Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Gavin Rae is Senior Visiting Research Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He is the author of <i>Critiquing Sovereign Violence</i> (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), <i>Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition</i> (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), <i>The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emanuel Levinas</i> (Palgrave, 2016), <i>Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze: A Comparative Analysis</i> (Palgrave, 2014) and <i>Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre and the Alienation of Human Being</i> (Palgrave, 2011). He is co-editor of <i>Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives</i> (Routledge, 2018) and <i>The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics</i> (Routledge, 2019).<p>
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