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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823807903321

Autore

Lezra Jacques <1960->

Titolo

Wild materialism [[electronic resource] ] : the ethic of terror and the modern republic / / Jacques Lezra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8232-3588-2

0-8232-3237-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 320 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Terrorism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Terrible ethics -- The ethic of terror -- Phares; or, divisible sovereignty -- The logic of sovereignty -- Materia in the critique of autonomy -- A Sadean community -- Three women, three bombs -- Distracted republic.

Sommario/riassunto

Opening a groundbreaking methodological dialogue between Freud's work and Althusser's late understanding of aleatory materialism, Lezra shows how an ethic of terror, and in the political sphere a radically democratic republic, can be built on what he calls 'wild materialism'.