Laurent De Sutter: 2 books
Narcocapitalism
Life in the Age of Anaesthesia
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: 'the age of anaesthesia'. Laurent de Sutter shows how...
Administering Interpretation
Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Features original pieces by an international group of major scholars, including such prominent figures as Stanley Fish and Bernhard Schlink (author of the bestselling novel The Reader, in addition to being a prominent legal scholar).