Sovereignty and superheroes. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Neal Curtis.
• Authors: Curtis, Neal
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 321.15; Sovereignty; Superheroes; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- General; Sovereignty; Superheroes; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784997007; 1784997005
• Related ISBNs: 9780719085048; 0719085047
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 23, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.