Tom Frost
Biographic Data
| ID | 459500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Frost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Frost |
| SIGNATURE | FROST T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8990-4158 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Slave in Legal and Political Philosophy
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 thought,…
The Chagossians’ Struggle and the Last Bastions of Imperial Constitutionalism
It Was Not Meant to Be This Way
In June 2016, the United Kingdom’s electorate voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. This article examines ‘Brexit’ from the perspective of British, or English, exceptionalism. It argues that the Leave vote was caused by a number of factors: underlying myths and exceptionalism about the U.K. and its relationship with ‘Europe’; the fallout from the 2007–2008 financial crisis; the austerity policies undertaken in the U.K. since 2010; an…
Brexit
Brexit: Sociological Responses edited by William Outhwaite, London: Anthem Press, 2017, 224 pp., £25, $40 (ppk), ISBN: 9781783086450
Neoliberalism and democracy – is there no alternative
There exist, in the academy today, huge numbers of scholars opposed to neoliberalism. In university libraries are hundreds of monographs on neoliberalism, many (if not all) casting a critical eye on this concept, and its perceived deleterious effects on democracy and the social structures of modernity. All this has occurred because, in the words of one such volume, ‘we live in the age of neoliberalism’ (Saad-Filho and Johnston, 2005, p.1). Nevert…
The Dispositif between Foucault and Agamben
This article interrogates the specter of resistance in the writings of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, arguing they open up divergent ways of theorizing resistance to power. This article's focus is on both philosophers' use and interpretation of the dispositif, or apparatus, which controls and orders subjects, and which is the target for forms of resistance. Whereas for Foucault resistance is a practice existing as a transcendent possibility…
Thinking relationality in Agamben and Levinas
Giorgio Agamben's development of a messianic politics-to-come seeks to counter the law which is in force without significance, a law which creates bare life. Embodying this messianic politics, and a call for the law's fulfilment, is the figure of whatever-being, a form-of-life. This article contends that there is an important conceptual problem in respect of Agamben's construction of such a form-of-life, namely the issue of relationality. The pro…
Giorgio Agamben
This book collects new contributions from an international group of leading scholars – including many who have worked closely with Agamben – to consider the impact of Agamben’s thought on research in the humanities and social sciences. Giorgio Agamben: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives comprises of three sections that address the potential of Agamben’s thought by re-focusing attention away from his critiques of Western politics and …
The Hyper-Hermeneutic Gesture of a Subtle Revolution
Drawing upon the thought of Giorgio Agamben, this essay focuses upon the potential of a single act to change a political order. Agamben’s writings retain the possibility for a paradigmatic gesture that opens a space for a politics not founded on a form of belonging grounded in a particular property, such as national identity. To illustrate this event this essay turns to Agamben’s construction of whatever-being, which is constructed hyper-hermeneu…
Agamben's Sovereign Legalization of Foucault
This article compares Michel Foucault’s way of thinking about sovereignty and law within biopower to the reading given to Foucault’s work and its development by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. It is argued that Agamben supports the expulsion thesis in order to generate critical distance for his own re-imagining of biopower. The expulsion thesis is a controversial account of the position of law in Foucault’s work that does not reflect Fou…
The Dispositif between Foucault and Agamben
This article interrogates the specter of resistance in the writings of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, arguing they open up divergent ways of theorizing resistance to power. This article's focus is on both philosophers' use and interpretation of the dispositif, or apparatus, which controls and orders subjects, and which is the target for forms of resistance. Whereas for Foucault resistance is a practice existing as a transcendent possibility…
Brexit
Brexit: Sociological Responses edited by William Outhwaite, London: Anthem Press, 2017, 224 pp., £25, $40 (ppk), ISBN: 9781783086450
Agamben's Sovereign Legalization of Foucault
This article compares Michel Foucault’s way of thinking about sovereignty and law within biopower to the reading given to Foucault’s work and its development by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. It is argued that Agamben supports the expulsion thesis in order to generate critical distance for his own re-imagining of biopower. The expulsion thesis is a controversial account of the position of law in Foucault’s work that does not reflect Fou…
Giorgio Agamben
This book collects new contributions from an international group of leading scholars – including many who have worked closely with Agamben – to consider the impact of Agamben’s thought on research in the humanities and social sciences. Giorgio Agamben: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives comprises of three sections that address the potential of Agamben’s thought by re-focusing attention away from his critiques of Western politics and …
The Hyper-Hermeneutic Gesture of a Subtle Revolution
Drawing upon the thought of Giorgio Agamben, this essay focuses upon the potential of a single act to change a political order. Agamben’s writings retain the possibility for a paradigmatic gesture that opens a space for a politics not founded on a form of belonging grounded in a particular property, such as national identity. To illustrate this event this essay turns to Agamben’s construction of whatever-being, which is constructed hyper-hermeneu…
Thinking relationality in Agamben and Levinas
Giorgio Agamben's development of a messianic politics-to-come seeks to counter the law which is in force without significance, a law which creates bare life. Embodying this messianic politics, and a call for the law's fulfilment, is the figure of whatever-being, a form-of-life. This article contends that there is an important conceptual problem in respect of Agamben's construction of such a form-of-life, namely the issue of relationality. The pro…
The Dispositif between Foucault and Agamben
This article interrogates the specter of resistance in the writings of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, arguing they open up divergent ways of theorizing resistance to power. This article's focus is on both philosophers' use and interpretation of the dispositif, or apparatus, which controls and orders subjects, and which is the target for forms of resistance. Whereas for Foucault resistance is a practice existing as a transcendent possibility…
Neoliberalism and democracy – is there no alternative
There exist, in the academy today, huge numbers of scholars opposed to neoliberalism. In university libraries are hundreds of monographs on neoliberalism, many (if not all) casting a critical eye on this concept, and its perceived deleterious effects on democracy and the social structures of modernity. All this has occurred because, in the words of one such volume, ‘we live in the age of neoliberalism’ (Saad-Filho and Johnston, 2005, p.1). Nevert…
It Was Not Meant to Be This Way
In June 2016, the United Kingdom’s electorate voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. This article examines ‘Brexit’ from the perspective of British, or English, exceptionalism. It argues that the Leave vote was caused by a number of factors: underlying myths and exceptionalism about the U.K. and its relationship with ‘Europe’; the fallout from the 2007–2008 financial crisis; the austerity policies undertaken in the U.K. since 2010; an…
Brexit
Brexit: Sociological Responses edited by William Outhwaite, London: Anthem Press, 2017, 224 pp., £25, $40 (ppk), ISBN: 9781783086450
The Chagossians’ Struggle and the Last Bastions of Imperial Constitutionalism
The Slave in Legal and Political Philosophy
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 thought,…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Brexit (2 works)