Northwestern University Press, 2012 Cloth: 978-0-8101-2802-6 | Paper: 978-0-8101-2803-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6575-5 Library of Congress Classification JA71.O37 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 320.01
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In her book, Oksala shows that the arguments for the ineliminability of violence from the political are often based on excessively broad, ontological conceptions of violence distinct from its concrete and physical meaning and, on the other hand, on a restrictively narrow and empirical understanding of politics as the realm of conventional political institutions.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Johanna Oksala is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
REVIEWS
"This is an ambitious, carefully crafted and lucidly argued volume. Oksala's concise, erudite study engages with key philosophical debates and political concerns in novel and provocative ways. It is necessary reading for political philosophers and political theorists." —Chloë Taylor, author of Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes: An Anti-Carceral Analysis
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Politicization of Ontology
Chapter 2: Foundational Violence
Chapter 3: Dangerous Animals
Chapter 4: The Politics of Gendered Violence
Chapter 5: Political Life
Chapter 6: The Management of State Violence
Chapter 7: The Political Ontology of Neoliberalism
Chapter 8: Violence and Neoliberal Governmentality
Chapter 9: Terror and Political Spirituality
Abbreviations for works by Foucault
References
Notes
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