Unbearable Life : A Genealogy of Political Erasure
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 274630791
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- ISBN
- 9780231193399
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 70,000 word monograph, published in the prestigious ‘Insurrections’ series co-edited by Slavoj Zizek at Columbia University Press, is the product of 6 years of research. To summarise its contents, the book offers a conceptual history of the practice of political erasure from ancient Rome to the present. Straddling the disciplinary boundaries between literature, political theory and religious studies, the work offers major new readings of Augustine, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Robespierre, Schmitt, Benjamin and Foucault. In his endorsement, the renowned Italian political philosopher Roberto Esposito describes the book as a ‘conceptual passage of extreme interest’.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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