Sovereignty and superheroes
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press
2016.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38184497*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: sovereignty and superheroes; Notes; 1 Legitimacy and the Good; The Platonic form of the superhero; The Good and social change; A never-ending struggle; Notes; 2 Defending freedom; The nationalist superhero; Captain America's promise; Captain America's patriotism; National recuperation; Notes; 3 Law and violence; Law and the mark of community; The Law's violent shadow; The beast and the sovereign; Bruce Wayne's pathos; Notes; 4 Friend and enemy; Maintaining the distinction.
- Deconstructing the distinction: autoimmunityDeconstructing the distinction: poison and cure; Reinstating the distinction; Notes; 5 Emergency and bare life; State of emergency/state of exception; The superhero's anomie; Anomie and the American monomyth; Anomie and the sovereign ban; Notes; 6 Symbolic authority and kinship; Another law; Totemism; Couplings and collectives; Notes; 7 Sovereignty at the limit; The contradiction of sovereignty; Limits and limitlessness; Meaningful worlds; The sovereign imagination; Notes; Postscript; Bibliography; Index.
