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Author Zevnik, Andreja, author.

Title Lacan, Deleuze and world politics : rethinking the ontology of the political subject / Andreja Zevnik
Published New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Interventions
Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Monist ontology: minimalism, nothingness and the void -- Being in the world: the limits of the political subject -- Being and existence in the fields of politics and law -- The book -- Notes -- 1. Law and life: the creation of the political and legal subject -- The psychoanalytical origins of modern legal authority -- The legal subject and the institution of law -- A different legal ordering: sinthome and desire -- Sinthomal logic of law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2. Ontology of life and the limit of thought -- The thought of the outside: life as a force -- The immanence of life -- From immanent life to appearance in the world -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Appearance in the world I: Guantánamo and logics of bodily-becomings -- Becoming as minor/molecular appearing in the world -- Becoming and the politics of appearance in Guantánamo -- What a body can do? -- Body politics: life, death and the limit of the body -- Notes -- 4. Appearing in the world II: Guantánamo and expressions of the self -- Desiring the world -- Torture and the perverse workings of desire -- Writing the world -- From language to lalangue, from litter to literature and from poems to freedom -- Naming the world otherwise -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Images of law in Guantánamo: from a legal case to a new idea of law -- Understanding Guantánamo: an exposition of Guantánamo's legal discourse -- Taking Guantánamo piece by piece -- Law as life or life as law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. An image of new ontology for world politics and the political subject -- Law and being without the Name-of-the-Father -- Sinthomal law as a logic of knotting -- Legal recognition, or what is the new legal existence -- Conclusion -- Notes
Conclusion: Subject, ontology and world politics -- Love as an image of an ethical community -- Not-all' as a new political ontology -- Appearance, ontology and the world of ... -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Names -- Index Notions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 14, 2016)
Subject Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
SUBJECT Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 fast
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 fast
Subject International relations -- Philosophy.
Ontology -- Political aspects
Subject (Philosophy)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
International relations -- Philosophy
Subject (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
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