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Necropolitics /

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9781478007227

1478005858

147800651X

9781478005858

9781478006510

Necropolitics /

[Book]

Achille Mbembe ; translated by Steven Corcoran.

Durham :

Duke University Press,

[2019].

©2019

1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)

Theory in forms

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The ordeal of the world -- Exit from democracy -- The society of enmity -- Necropolitics -- Viscerality -- Fanon's pharmacy -- This stifling noonday -- Conclusion: Ethics of the passerby.

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"In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side---what he calls its "nocturnal body"--Which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism. This shift has hollowed out democracy, thereby eroding the very values, rights, and freedoms liberal democracy routinely celebrates. As a result, war has become the sacrament of our times in a conception of sovereignty that operates by annihilating all those considered enemies of the state. Despite his dire diagnosis, Mbembe draws on post-Foucauldian debates on biopolitics, war, and race as well as Fanon's notion of care as a shared vulnerability to explore how new conceptions of the human that transcend humanism might come to pass. These new conceptions would allow us to encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude but as a person with whom to build a more just world."

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

JSTOR

22573/ctv111zt2j

Necropolitics.

9781478005858

Politiques de l'inimitié.

English

Fanon, Frantz,1925-1961.

Fanon, Frantz,1925-1961.

Decolonization-- History-- 20th century.

Democracy.

Political violence.

Postcolonialism.

Decolonization.

Democracy.

PHILOSOPHY / Political

Political violence.

Postcolonialism.

PHI-- 019000

SOC-- 008000

SOC-- 031000

Mbembe, Achille,1957-

Corcoran, Steve

20200823031353.0

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[Book]

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