Nihilopolitics as Meta-biopolitics? On Arthur Bradley's Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure

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 supporte...

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主要作者: Nedoh, Boštjan (Author)
其他作者: Bradley, Arthur (Bibliographic antecedent)
格式: 电子 Review
语言:English
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出版: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2021
In: Political theology
Year: 2021, 卷: 22, 发布: 6, Pages: 527-539
Review of:Unbearable life (New York : Columbia University Press, 2019) (Nedoh, Boštjan)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 主权 / 政治神学 / 政治 / 虚无主义
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
FD Contextual theology
Further subjects:B Sovereignty
B 书评
B Psychoanalysis
B Unbearable life
B biopolitical theory
B nihilopolitics
B Superego
B Political Theology
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总结: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.
ISSN:1743-1719
Contains:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1944000