Arne de Boever

Plastic Sovereignties (eBook, PDF)

Agamben and the Politics of Aesthetics

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Produktbeschreibung

Does sovereignty have a future in the 21st century?Through a sustained engagement with the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold. Using the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, he argues that these possibilities reside in an aesthetic reconceptualisation of sovereignty as a plastic power that is able to give, receive and explode the forms of our political future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748684984
• Artikelnr.: 50215557

Autorenporträt

Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. He is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and translations, as well as several books on contemporary comparative fiction and political and aesthetic philosophy. His books include Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism (2019), Plastic Sovereignties: Agamben and the Politics of Aesthetics (2016), François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought (2020), and Being Vulnerable (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The Future of Sovereignty
Part I: Aesthetics
1: An Experiment with Language
2: The Divine Violence of Storytelling
3: From Translatability to Politics
Part II: Economy
4: The Proletariat's Bare Life
5: Technology, Ontology, Politics
6: The Work of Inoperativity
Part III: Politics
7: Agamben in America
8: Sovereignty's Glitches
9: Formations of Infancy