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Plastic Sovereignties

Agamben and the Politics of Aesthetics

Arne De Boever author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:31st Oct '16

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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.

ISBN: 9780748684977

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 534g

416 pages