Slave in Legal and Political Philosophy - Agamben and His Interlocutors

This book explores how the figure of the slave has been used to construct ideas of freedom in Western political and legal philosophy.

List of contents

Why the Enslaved? 1. Slavery and the Coming Politics 2. The Potential of Resistance 3. Aristotle's Slave 4. St Paul, Messianic Time and the Power of the Example 5. The Master-Slave Dialectic and the Enslaved 6. Racial Capitalism and Decoloniality 7. The Gestures of the Body 8. The Way Forward

About the author

Tom Frost is a Senior Lecturer at Kent Law School, UK.

Summary

This book explores how the figure of the slave has been used to construct ideas of freedom in Western political and legal philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Frost, Tom (University of Sussex Frost
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032301273
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230127-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law