The EU seeks to define a role for itself in power politics while
remaining firm in its rejection of power politics. In order to make
power compatible with the European project, EU debate has appended
a number of progressive adjectives to the word "power," adjectives
like "civilian" and "normative," among others. This book asks what
is power, such that it can be modified, tamed, and modulated by
adjectives, yet remain "powerful"? Loriaux passes EU debate on
power through the mill of phenomenological and
post-phenomenological analysis, juxtaposing it against writings by
Machiavelli, Agamben, Thucydides, Nietzsche, Patocka, and Levinas.
The book locates power in "power/play," the theatrical, staged
representation of threat that generates aesthetic effect and
undecidability. Power/play endows the word "power" with
perlocutionary force, which the adjectives of EU "qualified" power
actually enhance rather than moderate. Loriaux argues that EU
discourse on power therefore risks inviting EU "exceptionalism," or
risks lapsing into an expression of EU ressentiment, rather than
advancing a new, progressive understanding of "power." If European
Union is to remain steadfast in its opposition to power politics,
it must represent itself as "anti-power." This book will be of
interest to those who work in the area of EU foreign policy, as
well as to those who have a more general theoretical interest in
the concept of power.
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