James Martel: 9 books

Book cover of Subverting the Leviathan

Subverting the Leviathan

Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat

by James Martel
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader. Martel demonstrates...
Book cover of Textual Conspiracies

Textual Conspiracies

Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory

by James Martel
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011

“This is a sophisticated and fascinating argument written in a very enjoyably entertaining style.  It is hard for me to see how readers initially interested in these texts will not be ‘swept off their feet’ by the core assertions of this author, and the devastatingly comprehensive way in which...
Book cover of The One and Only Law

The One and Only Law

Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment

by James Martel
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence,” widely considered his final word on law, proposes that all manifestations of law are false stand-ins for divine principles of truth and justice that are no longer available to human beings. However, he also suggests that we must have law—we are held...
Book cover of Love is a Sweet Chain

Love is a Sweet Chain

Desire, Autonomy and Friendship in Liberal Political Theory

by James Martel
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

Notions of love intersect with ideas on personal liberty, obligation, individuality, self, and difference in this study. James Martel contends that theorists' inattention to the subject has impoverished our explorations of political discourse.
Book cover of Transitional Subjects

Transitional Subjects

Critical Theory and Object Relations

by Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, C. Fred Alford
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019

Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is...
Book cover of The Misinterpellated Subject
by James R. Martel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017

Although Haitian revolutionaries were not the intended audience for the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they heeded its call, demanding rights that were not meant for them. This failure of the French state to address only its desired subjects is an example of the phenomenon James R. Martel labels...
Book cover of The Origins of the First World War
by James Joll, Gordon Martel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways in which historians have subsequently attempted to understand...
Book cover of Love, Loyalty & Mayhem: A Motorcycle Club Romance Anthology
by Ryan Michele, Chelsea Camaron, Autumn Jones Lake
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019

Love, Loyalty & Mayhem: A Motorcycle Club Romance Anthology Bad Boy Alpha Alert! Nineteen of your favorite MC authors come together to bring you brand new, never released stories from some of your favorite motorcycle clubs. Love- Life with a biker is an adventure full...
Book cover of Divine Violence

Divine Violence

Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty

by James R. Martel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty. It argues that the practice of sovereignty reflects a Christian eschatology, one that proves very hard to overcome even by left thinkers, such as Arendt and Derrida, who are very critical of it. These authors...
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