Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-66512-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 231 mm x 157 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

When talking about his film Salò, Pasolini claimed that nothing is more anarchic than power, because power does whatever it wants, and what power wants is totally arbitrary. And yet, upon examining the murderous capital of modern sovereignty, the fragility emerges of a power whose existence depends on its victims’ recognition. Like a prayer from God, the command implores to be loved, also by those whom it puts to death. Benefitting from this "political theurgy" as the book calls it (the idea that a power, like God, claiming to be full of glory, constantly needs to be glorified) is Barnardine, the Bohemian murderer in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, as he, called upon by power to the gallows, answers with a curse: ‘a pox o’ your throats’.

He does not want to die, nor, indeed, will he. And so, he becomes sovereign. On a level with and against the State.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tedesco, Francescomaria

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Allgemeines Prozessrecht, Kostenrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. "Tell the bastards nothing!". The ideology of the scaffold

2. Fault lines

3. That sovereign, a true Machiavellian

4. Machiavelli and Shakespeare

5. Sovereign excess. Death penalty and recognition

6. Hinneni

7. Tu es/Tuer

8. I will not consent to die

9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Francescomaria Tedesco is assistant professor at the University of Camerino (Italy), where he teaches Political Philosophy.