On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal

Gil Anidjar

Published by Columbia University Press 2024

On the Sovereignty of Mothers

The Political as Maternal

Gil Anidjar

https://doi.org/10.7312/anid21643

About this book

Paternal, patriarchal, and fraternal concepts, metaphors, and images have long dominated thinking about politics. But the political, Gil Anidjar argues, has always been maternal.

Author / Editor information

Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (2003); Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (2008); and Blood: A Critique of Christianity (2014).

Reviews

Jill Frank, author of Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato's Republic:
In this many-mother-tongued and multidisciplinary ode to, from, and with, his mother, other mothers, and doubled mothers, Gil Anidjar illuminates the economic, social, and racial dream-and-nightmare work of mothering. Orienting to a plural and preserving mothering that avows its capacity for lethality, Anidjar brilliantly retheorizes sovereignty as the “political maternal.” On the Sovereignty of Mothers is a must-read for anyone who has been mothered.

Elissa Marder, author of The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction:
Gil Anidjar is a brilliant and provocative thinker. In this book, he takes up a well-worn topic (mothers and mothering) and succeeds in generating exciting new formulations and original insights. This beautifully conceived book exhibits dazzling erudition, philosophical sophistication, and startling literary analysis to ask urgent political and philosophical questions.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION: THE MOTHER IN ME Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One MOTHER AND SLAVE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter Two OF MOTHERS BORN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter Three THE SOVEREIGNTY OF MOTHERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
CODA: SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: November 19, 2024
ISBN: 9780231561280

On the Sovereignty of Mothers

The Political as Maternal

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.