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Stating that death is the opposite not of life, but of power, the author argues that death has had a great and largely unexplored impact on the thinking of governance throughout history. He pursues the idea that a deep concern with death is, in fact, the basis of the ideological foundations of all political systems.

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Foreword; I-Consolations; The Master as Slave; Death and Hierarchy;. Death as Degradation; The Substitution of Death; Between Philosophy and Sovereignty; II-Imperium; The Logic of Absolute Prominence; The Rule over Death; Retreat from the Ideal; From the Prosaic to the Brittle; III-Preparations; Destiny - the Uncanny Death; Fear and the Invisible; Future as Past; Sacrifice and the Sovereignty of the Soul; IV-Forgetting; Isolation and Reparation; The Heroic; The Triumph of Life; Remembering in the Age of Forgetting; Last Words: Death and Difference.

Of Death and Dominion The Existential Foundations

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810124417, 978-0810124417
      ISBN10: 0810124416
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Stating that death is the opposite not of life, but of power, the author argues that death has had a great and largely unexplored impact on the thinking of governance throughout history. He pursues the idea that a deep concern with death is, in fact, the basis of the ideological foundations of all political systems.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword; I-Consolations; The Master as Slave; Death and Hierarchy;. Death as Degradation; The Substitution of Death; Between Philosophy and Sovereignty; II-Imperium; The Logic of Absolute Prominence; The Rule over Death; Retreat from the Ideal; From the Prosaic to the Brittle; III-Preparations; Destiny - the Uncanny Death; Fear and the Invisible; Future as Past; Sacrifice and the Sovereignty of the Soul; IV-Forgetting; Isolation and Reparation; The Heroic; The Triumph of Life; Remembering in the Age of Forgetting; Last Words: Death and Difference.

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