Melayna Kay Lamb

A Philosophical History of Police Power (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking the philosophical grounds of police power, Melayna Lamb argues that traditional ideas of sovereignty and the law need to be radically re-evaluated. In placing police at the centre of analysis this book demonstrates the manner in which police power exists in a complex and overlapping relationship with sovereignty and law in a form which is not reducible to implementation. In doing this it argues for the centrality of order in any consideration of police and challenging a common narrative whereby a dynamic, interventionist sovereign power that follows from a belief of order as 'artificial' is replaced by a liberal, limited non-interventionist sovereign power that proceeds from a 'natural' order. Moving through thinkers such as Hobbes, Hegel and Adam Smith the book argues that police power is in fact an-archic in form, in a manner that makes it impossible to hold accountable through the law.

Lamb adopts an interdisciplinary approach that turns to philosophy to make sense of global events that see police power at their centre. This includes the history of police brutality in the US, the structural injustices made more apparent by COVID-19 and the growing calls to abolish the police.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350204058
• Artikelnr.: 69634626

Autorenporträt

Melayna Kay Lamb is a Lecturer at the University of Law, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sovereign Police?
Oikonomia
The end of Oikonomia?
The Argument
The Structure
Prologue: Foucault, Smith and Disappearing Police
Archaeology and Order
Biopolitics, Discipline and Order
Order: Physis or Nomos?
1. Sovereignty and Fear: Hobbes and the Production of Order
The Political Animal vs. the Wolf
(Dis)order, Teleology and the Life of the State
Living and Living Well
The Splitting of Power
2. Hegel and Police: On the Relation between Universal and Particular
The Hegelian State
Hegel's Polizei
Fichte's Police
Hegel on Fichte's Police
Polizei, Police, Police-Power
Violence, Nature and Hegel's Emergency
3. Law, Sovereignty and the Exception: Benjamin and Modern Police
Schmitt's Sovereign
The Transcendent made Immanent: Benjamin's response
Violence and Critique
Benjamin's Police
Force of Law
4. The Anarchy of Order: Agamben and the Police
Divided Power and Oikonomia
Fate, Government and Collateral Effects
The Signature of Order
The An-archic Character of Police Power
Potentiality, Exceptionality, Police
5. da Silva: Nature, Necessity and Violence
The Racial and the Modern
Police Power and Colonial Boomerangs
Revisiting the State of Nature
Time and Anti-Black Violence
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography