UID:
almahu_9949880678702882
Format:
1 online resource (167 pages)
ISBN:
9780429017162
,
0429017162
,
9780429017155
,
0429017154
,
9780429017148
,
0429017146
,
9780429507380
,
0429507380
Content:
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.
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; I. 'Tell the bastards nothing!' Gallows ideology; II. Fault lines; III. That sovereign, a true Machiavel!; IV. Machiavelli and Shakespeare; V. Sovereign excess, death penalty and recognition; VI. Hineni; VII. Tu es/tuer; VIII. 'I will not consent to die'; IX. Barnardine; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Tedesco, Francescomaria. Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance. Milton : Routledge, ©2018 ISBN 9781138549852
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780429507380
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429507380
