Books by Robert Cover
“This article is a great classic in legal studies. And for me it launched a paradigm shift in the analysis of law and justice. Robert Cover was an American law professor and scholar. He died very young but was involved in many important debates of his time. You could say he is a model intellectual for me, in the way he wrote about radical and transformative concepts.” Read more...
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Robert Cover were recommended
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Violence and the Word
by Robert Cover -
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander -
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Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
by Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Martin Jr. -
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Critique of Violence
by Walter Benjamin -
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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979
by Michel Foucault
The best books on State, Power and Violence, recommended by Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
The best books on State, Power and Violence, recommended by Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
French philosopher and sociologist Geoffroy de Lagasnerie argues for a more realist political theory, one that fully acknowledges that state violence is the one thing in your life that you can never escape. His selection includes works by Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin, as well as a history of the Black Panther Party.
