Nicholas Michelsen

Politics and Suicide

The philosophy of political self-destruction

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Produktbeschreibung

Politics and Suicide draws heavily on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780815377535
• ISBN-10: 0815377533
• Artikelnr.: 57043264

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Michelsen is Lecturer in International Relations Theory in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Kamikaze 1.1 State suicide 1.2 Politics, the assemblage of desire 1.3 The
fascist assemblage 1.4 Revolution and annihilation 1.5 Mishima's revolution
Self-burning 2.1 Immol¿re 2.2 Death and Desire 2.3 Events and Death 2.4
Palach's revolution Hunger-striking 3.1 Crossing the threshold 3.2 Bodily
Inscription 3.3 Decoding death 3.4 Exchange 3.5 Terror and Production
Terror 4.1 Human bomb 4.2 The Despot 4.3 Liberal Suicides 4.4 Terror and
Liberalism 4.5 A politics from the outside Cult and Revolution 5.1
Revolutionary suicide 5.2 Jonestown 5.3 Millenarianism 5.4 Dying well 5.5
Afterword: On machines