Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics | Taschenbuch

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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.

Über den Autor

Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is author of Critique of Black Reason and coeditor of Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. The Ordeal of the World 1
1. Exit from Democracy 9
2. The Society of Enmity 42
3. Necropolitics 66
4. Viscerality 93
5. Fanon's Pharmacy 117
6. This Stifling Noonday 156
Conclusion. Ethics of the Passerby 184
Notes 191
Index 211

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Theory in Forms
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781478006510
ISBN-10:	147800651X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mbembe, Achille
Hersteller:	Combined Academic Publ.
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Achille Mbembe
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.10.2019
Gewicht:	0,332 kg

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