{"product_id":"unburied-bodies-subversive-corpses-and-the-authority-of-the-dead-9781943208104","title":"Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead","description":"The human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is a matter of universal revulsion, taboo in virtually all human cultures. Not least for this reason, the unburied corpse quickly becomes a focal point of political salience, on the one hand seeming to express the contempt of state power toward the basic claims of human dignity--while on the other hand simultaneously bringing into question the very legitimacy of that power. In \u003ci\u003eUnburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead, \u003c\/i\u003e James Martel surveys the power of the body left unburied to motivate resistance, to bring forth a radically new form of agency, and to undercut the authority claims made by state power. Ranging across time and space from the battlefields of ancient Thebes to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and taking in perspectives from such writers as Sophocles, Machiavelli, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Judith Butler, Thomas Lacqueur, and Bonnie Honig, Martel asks why the presence of the abandoned corpse can be seen by both authorities and protesters as a source of power, and how those who have been abandoned or marginalized by structures of authority can find in a lifeless body \u003cb\u003efellow accomplices \u003c\/b\u003e in their aspirations for dignity and humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4184107\"\u003eJames R. Martel\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amherst College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943208104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1943208107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC036000\"\u003eDeath \u0026amp; Dying\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI019000\"\u003ePolitical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames R. Martel is professor of political science at San Francisco State University. A scholar at the intersection of political theory, continental philosophy, anarchism, post-colonial theory, and theories of gender and sexuality, his books include \u003ci\u003eThe Misinterpellated Subject\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2017); \u003ci\u003eSubverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat \u003c\/i\u003e(2007); \u003ci\u003eHow Not to be Governed: Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left\u003c\/i\u003e (2011, co-editor); and \u003ci\u003eLove is a Sweet Chain: Desire, Autonomy, and Friendship in Liberal Political Theory. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is also the author of a trilogy of books on Walter Benjamin, notably \u003ci\u003eThe One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDivine Violence: Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eTextual Conspiracies: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amherst College","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42669805633773,"sku":"9781943208104","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_93527713-ee4b-4ef0-8e66-af632eb2d5e9.jpg?v=1649482201","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/unburied-bodies-subversive-corpses-and-the-authority-of-the-dead-9781943208104","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}