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Arbitrary Rule - Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death (Hardcover)
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Arbitrary Rule - Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death (Hardcover)
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Slavery appears as a figurative construct in countless cultural and
historical contexts, especially during the English revolution of
the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French
revolutions, when radical pamphleteers and theorists repeatedly
represented their treatment as a form of political slavery. What,
if anything, does this figurative, political slavery have to do
with transatlantic slavery? In "Arbitrary Rule", Mary Nyquist
explores connections between political and chattel slavery by
excavating the tradition of Western political thought that
justifies actively opposing tyranny. Political slavery, whether
civil or national, Nyquist shows, is frequently paired with its
antagonist, political tyranny. "Arbitrary Rule" is the first book
to tackle political slavery's discursive complexity, engaging
Eurocolonialism, political philosophy, and literary studies, areas
of study too often kept apart. She argues that "antityranny
discourse" provided members of a "free" community with a means of
protesting a threatened reduction of privileges, or of
consolidating a collective, political identity. Its semantic
complexity, however, also enabled it to legitimize racialized
enslavement and imperial expansion. Throughout, Nyquist
demonstrates how principles relating to political slavery and
tyranny are bound up with a Roman jurisprudential doctrine that
sanctions the power of life and death held by the slaveholder over
slaves and, by extension, the state over its citizenry.
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