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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “miguel vatter”
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  • Living Law

    Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt

    by Miguel Vatter ...
    It is often assumed that modern democratic government has a special link with Christianity or was made possible due to Christianity. As a challenge to this belief and echoing a long-held assumption in the republican tradition, Hannah Arendt once remarked that "Washington's and Napoleon's heroes were named Moses and David." In this book, Miguel Vatter reconstructs the political theology of German ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Divine Democracy

    Political Theology after Carl Schmitt

    by Miguel Vatter ...
    How secular are the political and legal concepts that underpin liberal democracy? Carl Schmitt first coined the term political theology to show the dependency of modern western jurisprudence and political science on Christian theological discourse, and in so doing criticized the claim to religious neutrality of liberal institutions. In this book, Miguel Vatter reconstructs how and why the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Republic of the Living

    Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society

    by Miguel Vatter ...
    Series series Commonalities
    This book takes up Foucault’s hypothesis that liberal “civil society,” far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower. In order to test this hypothesis, its chapters examine the critical theory of civil society—from Hegel and Marx through Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Machiavelli's 'The Prince'

    A Reader's Guide

    by Professor Miguel Vatter ...
    Series series Reader's Guides
    Machiavelli's influence on modern politics and the importance of his thought for the development of modern political ideas has long been universally acknowledged. The Prince has become a key text in Philosophy and Political Theory, one that is widely read and studied. Machiavelli's most important work is a hugely exciting, yet challenging, piece of philosophical writing.In Machiavelli's 'The ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Viral Politics of Covid-19

    Nature, Home, and Planetary Health

    Edited by Vanessa Lemm, Miguel Vatter ...
    This book critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, economic, and political levels. The biolegal dimensions of our evolving understanding of “home” are analysed as the common thread linking the problem of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Government of Life

    Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism

    Edited by Vanessa Lemm, Miguel Vatter ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    Foucault’s late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary group of Foucault scholars examines his ideas of biopower and biopolitics and their ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Violence and Civility

    On the Limits of Political Philosophy

    by Étienne Balibar ...
    Translated by G. M. Goshgarian ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker pushes past the limits of political philosophy to reconceive war, revolution, sovereignty, and class ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Imaginal Politics

    Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary

    by Chiara Bottici ...
    Series Book 68 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal and its nexus with the political, Chiara Bottici brings fresh perspective to the formation of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Borrowed Light

    Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies

    by Timothy Brennan ...
    A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the "anticolonial century." The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from all over the world in interwar Europe. Many of this era's principal figures were formed by the experience of revolution on Europe's semi-developed ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Rousseau and Weber

    by J.G. Merguior ...
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Max Weber, central thinkers to the discussion of political legitimacy, represent two very different stages and forms of social theory: early modern political philosophy and classical sociology. In these studies, Dr Merquior describes and assesses their individual contributions to the understanding of the concept of political legitimacy.Dr Merquior compares Rousseau and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Sovereignty and its Discontents

    On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political

    by William Rasch ...
    Series series Birkbeck Law Press
    This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'.The notion of the political expounded here is explicitly 'realist' and anti-utopian - in large part because the ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Disclosure of Politics

    Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization

    by Maria Lara ...
    Series Book 35 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Postmodern political critiques speak of the death of ideology, the end of history, and the postsecular return of religious attitudes, yet radical conservative theorists such as Mark Lilla argue religion and politics are inextricably intertwined. Returning much-needed uncertainty to debates over the political while revitalizing the very terms in which they are defined, María Pía Lara explores the ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD