The Slave in Legal and Political Philosophy: Agamben and His Interlocutors

by Tom Frost

This book explores how the figure of the slave has been used to construct ideas of freedom in Western political and legal philosophy.

The figure of the slave has supported philosophical and legal defences of colonialism, coloniality and the supremacy of the white subject. Yet for Giorgio Agamben, the slave stands (almost counterintuitively) as an exemplar of a potential form of future positive political existence. Developing this line of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032301279
• ISBN13: 9781032301273
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages