Sovereignty in ruins : a politics of crisis / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek, editors.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-339) and index.

Natural history : toward a politics of crisis / George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek -- Left and right: why they still make sense / Carlo Galli -- Politics in the present / Roberto Esposito -- Cujusdam nigri and scabiosi Brasiliani : Ranci�ere and Derrida / Alberto Moreiras -- Pasolini's acceptance / Rei Terada -- Reopening the Plato question / Adam Sitze -- The royal remains : the people's two bodies and the endgames of sovereignty / Eric L. Santner -- Arendt : thinking cohabitation and the dispersion of sovereignty / Judith Butler -- Beyond the state of exception : Hegel on freedom, law, and decision / Andrew Norris -- Humans and (other) animals in a biopolitical frame / Cary Wolfe -- Thing-politics and science / Carsten Strathausen.

Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory, Sovereignty in Ruins presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought is itself an agent of crisis. Aiming to develop a political vocabulary capable of critiquing and transforming contemporary political frameworks, the contributors advance a politics of crisis that collapses the false dichotomies between sovereignty and governmentality and between critique and crisis. Their essays address a wide range of topics, such as the role history plays in the development of a politics of crisis; Arendt's controversial judgment of Adolf Eichmann; Strauss's and Badiou's readings of Plato's Laws; the acceptance of the unacceptable; the human and nonhuman; and flesh as a biopolitical category representative of the ongoing crisis of modernity. Altering the terms through which political action may take place, the contributors think through new notions of the political that advance countermodels of biopolitics, radical democracy, and humanity. Contributors. Judith Butler, George Edmondson, Roberto Esposito, Carlo Galli, Klaus Mladek, Alberto Moreiras, Andrew Norris, Eric L. Santner, Adam Sitze, Carsten Strathausen, Rei Terada, Cary Wolfe