Bastard Politics - Sovereignty and Violence

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.

About the author

Nick Mansfield is Honorary Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of several books, including The God Who Deconstructs Himself: Subjectivity and Sovereignty between Freud, Bataille and Derrida and Theorizing War: From Hobbes to Badiou.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Mansfield, Mansfield Nick
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781438481654
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8165-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Suny Contemporary French Thoug; SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought