{"product_id":"defective-institutions-a-protocol-for-the-republic-paperback","title":"Defective Institutions: A Protocol for the Republic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacques Lezra\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDefective\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eInstitutions \u003c\/i\u003eoverturns the basis of institutionalism.\u003ci\u003e Faith\u003c\/i\u003e in classic institutions--exposed as clamorously inadequate by the failure of governance under neoliberalism--does not result in greater democracy, greater horizontality, or more equitable living. Nor does trust in the standing of decisions, in the authority of antecedent cases, in the coherence, strength, continuity, or solidity of the institutions that frame and render legitimate these decisions and the rules they buttress. To the contrary: the classically-imagined institution and our faith in it lie at the heart of neoliberal unfreedom and racialized violence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWorking at the point of contact and conflict between socialist and anarcho-philosophical traditions, \u003ci\u003e Defective Institutions\u003c\/i\u003e offers an alternative, which is also an alternative to the figures of governance associated with the liberal conception of the state: an aberrant republicanism comprised of defective institutions, run through with the necessity of their abolition. Lezra's book moves from the primitive scenes of Western political institution--the city; the family; the university; the \u003ci\u003efirst person\u003c\/i\u003e; \"race\"--through recent work in the philosophy of translation, decolonial studies, abolitionism, Afropessimism and its critiques, psvchoanalysis, and musicology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo offer an original wedding of \u003ci\u003eabolition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003einstitution, \u003c\/i\u003eLezra brings together genealogies of contemporary institutionalism (from Durkheim and Hauriou to Searle); post-Marxist accounts of the state (Balibar, Abensour); philosophical and anthropological anarchism (Wolff, Malabou, Graeber, Scott); critical legal theory (analyses of \u003ci\u003eMarbury v. Madison\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eDobbs v. Jackson)\u003c\/i\u003e; continental and analytic versions and critiques of foundationalism (Heidegger, Lyotard and Butler; Quine, Searle and Fine); and political and sociological abolitionism (Lewis, O'Brien). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a time when some call for strengthening institutions and for defending liberties ostensibly protected by such institutions, and others long for the destruction of institutions that have long been oppressive, Lezra's book offers today's Left a new framework for confronting institutions' necessity and their necessary abolition.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Every institution is, or can be imagined to be 'defective, ' entailing its own abolition in an anarchic inversion of its constitutive tautology. This is where Jacques Lezra brings us through a series of unexpected readings. It will be hard not to follow where the deadly possibility of happiness awaits us. Republicanism and risk are the twin faces of freedom. Do we not agree?\"--\u003cb\u003eEtienne Balibar\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eCitizen Subject\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Lezra's scope and range of references, nuance, and sophistication are extraordinary. No one else thinks or writes quite like him. \u003ci\u003eDefective Institutions\u003c\/i\u003e is exhilarating to read.\"--\u003cb\u003eElissa Marder\u003c\/b\u003e, Emory University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDefective\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eInstitutions \u003c\/i\u003eoverturns the basis of institutionalism.\u003ci\u003e Faith\u003c\/i\u003e in classic institutions--exposed as clamorously inadequate by the failure of governance under neoliberalism--does not result in greater democracy, greater horizontality, or more equitable living. Nor does trust in the standing of decisions, in the authority of antecedent cases, in the coherence, strength, continuity, or solidity of the institutions that frame and render legitimate these decisions and the rules they buttress. To the contrary: the classically-imagined institution and our faith in it lie at the heart of neoliberal unfreedom and racialized violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWorking at the point of contact and conflict between socialist and anarcho-philosophical traditions, \u003ci\u003e Defective Institutions\u003c\/i\u003e offers an alternative, which is also an alternative to the figures of governance associated with the liberal conception of the state: an aberrant republicanism comprised of defective institutions, run through with the necessity of their abolition. Lezra's book moves from the primitive scenes of Western political institution--the city; the family; the university; the \u003ci\u003efirst person\u003c\/i\u003e; \"race\"--through recent work in the philosophy of translation, decolonial studies, abolitionism, Afropessimism and its critiques, psvchoanalysis, and musicology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a time when some call for strengthening institutions and for defending liberties ostensibly protected by such institutions, and others long for the destruction of institutions that have long been oppressive, Lezra's book offers today's Left a new framework for confronting institutions' necessity and their necessary abolition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Lezra\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of English and Hispanic Studies at the University of California--Riverside. His books include \u003ci\u003eOn the Nature of Marx's Things\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eUntranslating Machines\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWild Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Lezra \u003c\/b\u003eis Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English and Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent publications are \u003ci\u003eRepública salvaje \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), \u003ci\u003eOn the Nature of Marx's Things \u003c\/i\u003e(2018), \u003ci\u003eUntranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), and \u003ci\u003eContra todos los fueros de la Muerte \u003c\/i\u003e(2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750389743904,"sku":"9781531506919","price":59.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/64956e1a0e5e8bb4beb0e4848c215441.webp?v=1779949415","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/defective-institutions-a-protocol-for-the-republic-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}