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Notions of love intersect with ideas on personal liberty, obligation, individuality, self, and difference in this study. James Martel contends that theorists' inattention to the subject has impoverished our explorations of political discourse. (view table of contents)
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9780415928564 | Routledge, June 1, 2001, cover price $175.00
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9780415928830 | Routledge, June 1, 2001, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: Notions of love intersect with ideas on personal liberty, obligation, individuality, self, and difference in this study.
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9780231139847 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 15, 2007, cover price $60.00
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9780472117727 | Univ of Michigan Pr, July 20, 2011, cover price $75.00
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9780472035229 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, November 28, 2012), cover price $31.00
Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty. It argues that the practice of sovereignty reflects a Christian eschatology, one that proves very hard to overcome even by left thinkers, such as Arendt and Derrida, who are very critical of it. These authors fall into a trap described by Carl Schmitt whereby one is given a (false) choice between anarchy and sovereignty, both of which are bound withinâand return us toâthe same eschatological envelope. In Divine Violence, the author argues that Benjamin supplies the correct political theology to help these thinkers. He shows how to avoid trying to get rid of sovereignty (the "anarchist move" that Schmitt tells us forces us to "decide against the decision") and instead to seek to de-center and dislocate sovereignty so that itâs mythological function is disturbed. He does this with the aid of divine violence, a messianic force that comes into the world to undo its own mythology, leaving nothing in its wake. Such a move clears the myths of sovereignty away, turning us to our own responsibility in the process. In that way, the author argues,Benjamin succeeds in producing an anarchism that is not bound by Schmittâs trap but which is sustained even while we remain dazzled by the myths of sovereignty that structure our world. Divine Violence will be of interest to students of political theory, to those with an interest in political theology, philosophy and deconstruction, and to those who are interested in thinking about some of the dilemmas that the âleftâ finds itself in today.
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9780415673457 | Routledge, November 14, 2011, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty.
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9780415815246 | Routledge, September 25, 2012, cover price $54.95
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9780472072309 | Univ of Michigan Pr, September 19, 2014, cover price $75.00
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9780472052301 | Univ of Michigan Pr, September 19, 2014, cover price $45.00
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9780822362845 | Duke Univ Pr, February 24, 2017, cover price $94.95
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9780822362968 | Reprint edition (Duke Univ Pr, February 24, 2017), cover price $25.95
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