Critiquing Sovereign Violence: Law, Biopolitics, Bio-Juridicalism

Criticises the historically dominant classic-juridical model of sovereign violence and defends a bio-juridical model instead

Gavin Rae offers an original approach to sovereign violence by looking at a wide range of thinkers, which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form the radical-juridical perspective; Foucault and Agamben the biopolitical; Derrida the bio-juridical—which Rae argues produces the most nuanced account.

Rae engages with new translat...