{"product_id":"beyond-biopolitics-francois-debrix-9780415780599","title":"Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Beyond Biopolitics constitutes a truly serious attempt to think about the unthinkable.' \u003c\/em\u003eGuy Lancaster, Political Studies Review: 2014 VOL 12, 93. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond Biopolitics\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9\/11-War on Terror era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation that leave out of focus a series of extreme forms of gruesome violence that have no concern for the preservation of life, a crucial biopolitical theme. Debrix and Barder mobilize different concepts--horror, agonal sovereignty, the pulverization of the flesh, or the notion of an inhumanity-to-come--to shed light on past and present ghastly scenes and events of violence that seek to undo the very idea of humanity. To highlight the capacity of horror to be in excess of both violence and the meaning of humanity, \u003cem\u003eBeyond Biopolitics\u003c\/em\u003e provides a series of engagements with issues much debated in contemporary critical theoretical circles, in particular war and terror, the production of fear, states and spaces of exception, and alterity as enmity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work will be of great interest to scholars of critical international relations theory, critical security studies and international relations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francois Debrix,Alexander Barder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415780594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415780599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012 pg. 106","brand":"Francois Debrix","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086653239551,"sku":"9780415780599","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6511e629-ede1-487d-b873-7f93fb62592c.jpg?v=1769095831","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-biopolitics-francois-debrix-9780415780599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}