{"product_id":"staging-sovereignty-theory-theater-thaumaturgy-insurrections-critical-studies-in-religion-politics-and-culture","title":"Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)","description":"To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear―philosophically, politically, and aesthetically―on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, in order to assume authority. In this sense, sovereignty is a theatrical phenomenon from the very beginning.\n\nThis book explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, philosophy, and performance. Arthur Bradley considers the theatricality of power―its forms, dramas, and iconography―and examines sovereignty’s modes of appearance: thrones, insignia, regalia, ritual, ceremony, spectacle, marvels, fictions, and phantasmagoria. He weaves together political theory and literature, reading figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schmitt, Benjamin, Derrida, and Agamben alongside writers including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Schiller, Melville, Valéry, Kafka, Ionesco, and Genet.\n\nFormally inventive and deeply interdisciplinary, Staging Sovereignty offers a surprising and original narrative of political modernity from early modern political theology to the age of neoliberal capitalism.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 023121734X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.023121734X.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Bradley, Arthur\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43534220099645,"sku":"BVV.023121734X.A","price":27.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/023121734X-0.jpg?v=1788214607","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/staging-sovereignty-theory-theater-thaumaturgy-insurrections-critical-studies-in-religion-politics-and-culture","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}