Of Death and Dominion - The Existential Foundations of Governance

Informationen zum Autor Mohammed A. Bamyeh is a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Ends of Globalization and The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse and the editor of Palestine America. Klappentext Stating that death is the opposite not of life, but of power, the author argues that death has had a great and largely unexplored impact on the thinking of governance throughout history. He pursues the idea that a deep concern with death is, in fact, the basis of the ideological foundations of all political systems. Zusammenfassung Stating that death is the opposite not of life! but of power! the author argues that death has had a great and largely unexplored impact on the thinking of governance throughout history. He pursues the idea that a deep concern with death is! in fact! the basis of the ideological foundations of all political systems.

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• Authors: Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Mohammed A. Morson Bamyeh
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2007
• EAN: 9780810124417
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2441-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Paperback); Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education