New Despotism - The Revival of an Old Monster

With in-depth empirical analysis of a range of case studies, this book offers a comprehensive genealogy of the concepts of economy, despotism and voluntary servitude and provides a thorough and coherent reflection on the wider socio-political agenda of contemporary societies.

List of contents

Introduction CHASING THE SKIN
Chapter 1 THE ANCIENT: DESPOTISM OF THE OIKOS
Excursus I Anabasis: The Best Way of Being a Locust
Chapter 2 THE EARLY MODERN: DESPOTISM OF THE POLIS
Chapter 3 THE UNTIMELY: ANTI-DESPOTISM OF FREE USE
Excursus II Don Quixote: A Useless Book for Idle Readers
Chapter 4 THE LATE MODERN: NEO-DESPOTISM OF THE EXCEPTION
Excursus III The Circle: Despotism as Anti-Despotism
Conclusion NEO-DESPOTISM, USE AND DISSENT

About the author

Bülent Diken is Reader in Social and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University. His previous publicaions include Strangers, Ambivalence and Social Theory (1998), The Culture of Exception: Sociology Facing the Camp (co-authored with CB Laustsen, 2005), Sociology Through the Projector (co-authored with CB Laustsen, 2007), Nihilism (2009), Revolt, Revolution, Critique: The Paradox of Society (2012) and God, Politics, Economy: Paradoxes of Religion (2015).

Summary

With in-depth empirical analysis of a range of case studies, this book offers a comprehensive genealogy of the concepts of economy, despotism and voluntary servitude and provides a thorough and coherent reflection on the wider socio-political agenda of contemporary societies.

Product details

• Authors: B. Diken, Bulent Diken, Bülent Diken
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781786603883
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-388-3
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Futures of the Archive
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Human Geography