Is justice only achievable by means of bureaucratization or might
it first arrive with the end of bureaucracy? Bureaucratic Fanatics
shows how this ever more contentious question in contemporary
politics belongs to the political-theological underpinnings of
bureaucratization itself. At the end of the 18th century, a new and
paradoxical kind of fanaticism emerged - rational fanaticism - that
propelled the intensive biopolitical management of everyday life in
Europe and North America as well as the extensive colonial
exploitation of the earth and its peoples. These excesses of
bureaucratization incited in turn increasingly fanatical forms of
resistance. And they inspired literary production that
provocatively presented the outrageous contours of rationalization.
Combining political theory with readings of Kleist, Melville,
Conrad, and Kafka, this genealogy of bureaucratic fanaticism
relates two extreme figures: fanatical bureaucrats driven to the
ends of the earth and to the limits of humanity by the rationality
of the apparatuses they serve; and peculiar fanatics who
passionately, albeit seemingly passively, resist the encroachments
of bureaucratization.
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