1st Edition
The Slave in Legal and Political Philosophy Agamben and His Interlocutors
By Tom Frost
Copyright 2025
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores how the figure of the slave has been used to construct ideas of freedom in Western political and legal philosophy.
The figure of the slave has supported philosophical and legal defences of colonialism, coloniality and the supremacy of the white subject. Yet for Giorgio Agamben, the slave stands (almost counterintuitively) as an exemplar of a potential form of future positive... Read more
Why the Enslaved? 1. Slavery and the Coming Politics 2. The Potential of Resistance 3. Aristotle’s Slave 4. St Paul, Messianic Time and the Power of the Example 5. The Master-Slave Dialectic and the Enslaved 6. Racial Capitalism and Decoloniality 7. The Gestures of the Body 8. The Way Forward
Biography
Tom Frost is a Senior Lecturer at Kent Law School, UK.
