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Unbearable Life - A Genealogy of Political Erasure (Paperback)
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Unbearable Life - A Genealogy of Political Erasure (Paperback)
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the
state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than
death: damnatio memoriae, condemnation of memory. The Senate would
decree that every trace of the citizen's existence be removed from
the city as if they had never existed in the first place. Once
reserved for individuals, damnatio memoriae in different forms now
extends to social classes, racial and ethnic groups, and even
entire peoples. In modern times, the condemned go by different
names-"enemies of the people;" the "missing," the "disappeared,"
"ghost" detainees in "black sites"-but they are subject to the same
fate of political erasure. Arthur Bradley explores the power to
render life unlived from ancient Rome through the War on Terror. He
argues that sovereignty is the power to decide what counts as being
alive and what does not: to make life "unbearable," unrecognized as
having lived or died. In readings of Augustine, Shakespeare,
Hobbes, Robespierre, Schmitt, and Benjamin, Bradley asks: What is
the "life" of this unbearable life? How does it change and endure
across sovereign time and space, from empires to republics, from
kings to presidents? To what extent can it be resisted or lived
otherwise? A profoundly interdisciplinary and ambitious work,
Unbearable Life rethinks sovereignty, biopolitics, and political
theology to find the radical potential of a life that neither lives
or dies.
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