Paul Gorby
Biographic Data
| ID | 4420184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Gorby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Gorby |
| SIGNATURE | GORBY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9898-2097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Police power and fugitivity
This article explores four crucial historical moments in the emergence of modern human rights, examining the ways in which they relate to themes of police power and fugitivity. Underpinned by critical theories of racial capitalism, it argues that the historically dominant liberal tradition of human rights—exemplified in the writings of John Locke and the politics of the French Revolution—implicates human rights discourse in hierarchical and racia…
Biopolitics and antipolitics in ancient Greek political thought
This article contributes to debates concerning the influence of ancient Greek political thought on contemporary biopolitics and antipolitical resistance. Building on the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, I first investigate the ancient roots of biopolitics in the writings of Aristotle. Innovatively combining Foucault's late lectures, Agamben's theory of form-of-life, and the critical concept of antipolitics, I next consider two paradig…
The Policing Animal
This article uncovers, analyzes, and critiques a common yet under-examined trend in the history of Western political thought: punitive humanism, the belief that human beings are "naturally" punitive. Engaging with different iterations of punitive humanist thought in the writings of John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Jeremy Bentham, I argue that this belief has wide-ranging implications, and constitutes a particular challenge to abolitionist theory an…
The biopolitics of fear
This article provides a critical reading of Giorgio Agamben’s writings on the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures imposed by Western states. Taking the theme of fear to be central to Agamben’s interventions on this topic, it constructs a genealogy of the political theology of fear through The Book of Job to Thomas Hobbes and up to the work of Agamben. Contrary to readings which treat Agamben’s pandemic texts as examples of conspiracy theorizing, …
The biopolitics of fear
This article provides a critical reading of Giorgio Agamben’s writings on the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures imposed by Western states. Taking the theme of fear to be central to Agamben’s interventions on this topic, it constructs a genealogy of the political theology of fear through The Book of Job to Thomas Hobbes and up to the work of Agamben. Contrary to readings which treat Agamben’s pandemic texts as examples of conspiracy theorizing, …
The biopolitics of fear
This article provides a critical reading of Giorgio Agamben’s writings on the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures imposed by Western states. Taking the theme of fear to be central to Agamben’s interventions on this topic, it constructs a genealogy of the political theology of fear through The Book of Job to Thomas Hobbes and up to the work of Agamben. Contrary to readings which treat Agamben’s pandemic texts as examples of conspiracy theorizing, …
The Policing Animal
This article uncovers, analyzes, and critiques a common yet under-examined trend in the history of Western political thought: punitive humanism, the belief that human beings are "naturally" punitive. Engaging with different iterations of punitive humanist thought in the writings of John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Jeremy Bentham, I argue that this belief has wide-ranging implications, and constitutes a particular challenge to abolitionist theory an…
Police power and fugitivity
This article explores four crucial historical moments in the emergence of modern human rights, examining the ways in which they relate to themes of police power and fugitivity. Underpinned by critical theories of racial capitalism, it argues that the historically dominant liberal tradition of human rights—exemplified in the writings of John Locke and the politics of the French Revolution—implicates human rights discourse in hierarchical and racia…
Biopolitics and antipolitics in ancient Greek political thought
This article contributes to debates concerning the influence of ancient Greek political thought on contemporary biopolitics and antipolitical resistance. Building on the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, I first investigate the ancient roots of biopolitics in the writings of Aristotle. Innovatively combining Foucault's late lectures, Agamben's theory of form-of-life, and the critical concept of antipolitics, I next consider two paradig…
Biopower (2 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)