- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
- Part I: Sophocles' <i>Antigone</i> or The Invention of Politics: We the City
- Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
- Part II D. A. F. de Sade's <i>One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom</i> or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People
- Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
- Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's <i>The Feast of the Goat</i> or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State
- Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
- Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation
- Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index
Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Chapter:
- (p.137) Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Source:
- Binding Violence
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
Order within the cannibal rite is preserved with two disparate sets of rules to prevent these perversions from turning upon the libertines. This chapter examines these sets of rules. The first consists of a series of “regulations” for the victims proclaimed in the “welcoming” sermon. These regulations are “positive” in that they are singular libertine decisions. The second mechanism is referred as a “notion” of order that regulates relations among the libertines and bears the traits of an ideology. Here the libertine decisions have been rendered“natural” and thus belong in the realm of necessity. The two mechanisms coexist, but are applied to two different populations—the regulations for the victims, and the “notion” of order for the libertines.
Keywords: order, cannibalism, perversions, libertines, victims
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
- Part I: Sophocles' <i>Antigone</i> or The Invention of Politics: We the City
- Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
- Part II D. A. F. de Sade's <i>One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom</i> or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People
- Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
- Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's <i>The Feast of the Goat</i> or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State
- Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
- Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation
- Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index
