The Magma of War: An Ontology of the Global

Author:   Edgar Illas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032784229


Pages:   210
Publication Date:   21 June 2024
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Author:   Edgar Illas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032784229


ISBN 10:   1032784229
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   21 June 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction Part I: From cosmic strife to global war (and back again) 1 Heraclitean cosmic strife 2 The Greek polis and the break with war 3 Just war in the res publica christiana 4 Machiavelli: War as primitive state accumulation 5 War and the modern state: Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Hegel 6 The continuum between war and state: Clausewitz, Schmitt, Foucault 7 The abyssal gap: Deconstructing war 8 The immanence of post- statal violence Part II: The magmatic nomos of global war 9 A geological nomos 10 From post- modern liquid to global magmatic 11 The chthonic dimension of Medea 12 Subterranean flow of violence 13 The global biopolitics of violence 14 A capitalist logic of war 15 Magmatic immanence Postscript: How to survive in global war?

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Edgar Illas is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research interests lie in political theory, Marxism, biopolitics, and war studies, and his field of specialization is contemporary Catalan culture. He has published The Survival Regime: Global War and the Political (Routledge, 2020) and Thinking Barcelona: Ideologies of a Global City (2012) and various articles on theoretical Marxism, politics, and architecture.

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