{"product_id":"of-death-and-dominion-the-existential-foundations-of-governance-rethinking-theory-9780810124417","title":"Of Death and Dominion The Existential Foundations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStating 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword; 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.","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038254367063,"sku":"9780810124417","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810124417.jpg?v=1750939663","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/of-death-and-dominion-the-existential-foundations-of-governance-rethinking-theory-9780810124417","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}