The Babylon complex : theopolitical fantasies of war, sex, and sovereignty / Erin Runions

Author:: Runions, Erin
Published:: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:: First edition.
Physical Description:: ix, 302 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents:

Introduction: Babylon and the crisis of sovereignty -- From Babel to biopolitics: Josephus, theodemocracy, and the regulation of pleasure -- Bellicose dreams: Babylon and exception to law -- Tolerating Babel: biopolitics, film, and family -- Revenge on Babylon: literalist allegory, Scripture, torture -- Who lives in Babylon? The gay Antichrist as political enemy -- Babelian scripture: a queerly sublime ethics of reading -- Postlude: roads to Babel.

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ISBN:

9780823257331 (cloth : alk. paper)
0823257339 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780823257348 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0823257347 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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