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Re-Imagining a Politics of Life

From Governance of Order to Politics of Movement
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The prominence and variety of global movements of resistance indicates that the idea of politics as governance is contested. However, the political canon continues to reinforce a narrow definition of politics according to liberal principles and practices. This book develops a new theory of political life that includes, and highlights, the interconnectedness of forces of order, disorder, governance, resistance, violence and difference. Using the concept of the milieu- both a mechanism of governance and a force of difference and transformation-this book stages an encounter between the modern political and international thought of Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant and the contemporary philosophy of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. The writings of Foucault and Deleuze will serve to explore and contextualize the milieu and will function to highlight the complex mobility and relationality of notions of politics, life, governance and resistance.
Prologue / Acknowledgements / Introduction: Politics of Life / 1. Sovereignty, War, Nature / 2. Mechanics, Movement, Organization / 3. Biology, Security, Life / 4. Circulation, Naturalization, (De)politicization / 5. Complexity, Relationality, Involution / 6. Politics, Life, Movement / Bibliography / Index
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