RT Review
T1 Nihilopolitics as Meta-biopolitics? On Arthur Bradley's Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
JF Political theology
VO 22
IS 6
SP 527
OP 539
A1 Nedoh, Boštjan
A2 Bradley, Arthur
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/176789340X
AB This article begins by introducing Bradley's master concept of unbearable life and its underpinning structure and logic of nihilopolitics through the ancient Roman figure of damnatio memoriae. It then gives an overview of how both unbearable life and nihilopolitics are reflected in and supported by Bradley's close readings of different political theological figures, stretching from Foucault (the unbearable), passing through Augustine (Cacus), Shakespeare (Macbeth), Robespierre (the already dead), Hobbes (the religious martyr) and Schmitt (the katechon), to Benjamin (the undead and the past to come). The article concludes by briefly outlining a possible dialogue between Bradley's master concepts of unbearable life and nihilopolitics and the psychoanalytic concepts of the superego and the death drive.
K1 Superego
K1 Psychoanalysis
K1 biopolitical theory
K1 Political Theology
K1 nihilopolitics
K1 Sovereignty
K1 Unbearable life
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1944000