Power in modernity : agency relations and the creative destruction of the King's two bodies /: agency relations and the creative destruction of the King's two bodies. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Isaac Ariail Reed.
• Authors: Reed, Isaac (Isaac Ariail)
• Contents: Introduction: Two Parables from Kafka Part I Power 1 Rector, Actor, Other Rector, Actor, Other Authorship Alterity Other as Enemy and Slave Scapegoats 2 Agency Relations Action and Agency Projects Projects in Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Said The Social Theory of Agency in the Work of Julia Adams Patriarchal Patrimonialism Retheorized Agency Relations and the Critical Theory of Power 3 Dimensions of Delegation and Domination The Ties That Bind Materiality: Alfred Gell Materiality in Chains of Power and Their Representation On Interests and Actor Network Theory as Opposing Poles of a Spectrum Relational Power Discursive Power Excursus on Chandra Mukerji's Synthesis of Material, Relational, and Discursive Power When Is the World Mechanical? On Violence Chains of Power and Their Representation: A Multidimensional Approach 4 Binding Performances Strange Magic Illocutionary Force and Performative Power Binding, Sending, and Excluding via Performance The Salem Witch Trials and the Fall of Oscar Wilde An Analysis of Performative Power in the Salem Witch Trials and the Fall of Oscar Wilde Excursus on the Theorization of Performance and Ritual in Sociology Performance in Chains of Power and Their Representation Founding Performances Part II Modernity Introduction to Part II 5 Agency, Alterity, and the Two Bodies of the King Trouble at the Edge of Empire Chains of Power and Their Representation in Seventeenth-Century Virginia The King's Body as Ultimate yet Absent Referent The King's Two Bodies The King's Two Bodies in Massachusetts Bay Colony and Beyond Bacon's Rebellion and Race: Enter the Other The People as Myth and Guarantor of Delegation: Herman Husband's Sermons 6 Performing the People's Two Bodies in the Early American Republic The Sociology of the Spectacular State Performing Sovereignty in 1794 Republican Government as a Problem of Meaning Inventing the People's Two Bodies in the Whiskey Rebellion Parsing the People's Two Bodies in the Whiskey Rebellion The Northwest Territory as a Performance Space The Battle of Fallen Timbers as a Violent Performance of the Spectacular American State The Treaty of Greenville and the Destruction of the King's Household as Metaphor for the State Anthony Wayne as Agent of the Public The People's Two Bodies and Their Others 7 Within and without the King's Two Bodies in London and Paris The King's Two Bodies and the Representation of Agency in Elizabethan England The Crisis of the King's Two Bodies and the Emergence of the Hobbesian Vision of the State Killing the King as Founding Performance Why and How Should We Kill the King? The People, Their Representatives, and the Law The Radical Position Performing without the King's Second Body Exclusions from the Ambiguity of Being within and without the King's Second Body The French Revolution as a Crisis in Authorship Part III Power in Modernity 8 Modernity as the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies Getting the Joke With What Should We Replace the King's Two Bodies? The New Political Economy Tensions in Cultural Theories of the Modern Biopower as the Replacement for the King's Two Bodies Power in Modernity: Bodies Power in Modernity: Politics Power in Modernity: Authorship Acknowledgments Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.3; Power (Social sciences); Civilization, Modern
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226689593
• Related ISBNs: 9780226689319; 9780226689456
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