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Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead
James R. Martel"Unburied Bodies is a creative, thought-provoking piece of scholarship that makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of necropolitics. Anyone interested in questions concerning sovereignty, authority, and the political work of the dead would be well advised to engage with this text." — Osman Balkan, Theory & Event
James R. Martel is professor of political science at San Francisco State University. A scholar at the intersection of political theory, continental philosophy, anarchism, post-colonial theory, and theories of gender and sexuality, his books include The Misinterpellated Subject (Duke, 2017) and Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat (Columbia, 2007), among others. He is also the author of a trilogy of books on Walter Benjamin, notably The One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment (Michigan, 2014).
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- 978-1-943208-10-4 (paperback)
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