Friedrich Ratzel, Lebensraum and the death motif
This intervention explores ‘death’ as an interpretive key both to Friedrich Ratzel's Lebensraum essay and his oeuvre more generally. Ratzel, I argue, was preoccupied with death in a number of ways, including a biogeographical concern with extinction, an ethnological interest in cannibalism and...
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| description | This intervention explores ‘death’ as an interpretive key both to Friedrich Ratzel's Lebensraum essay and his oeuvre more generally. Ratzel, I argue, was preoccupied with death in a number of ways, including a biogeographical concern with extinction, an ethnological interest in cannibalism and a fascination with the ruins of exterminated civilisations. Indeed, Ratzel grappled with the aesthetics of death itself in the later stages of his life. An appreciation of Ratzel as a thanatological thinker, I argue, opens the door to a recognition of his place not just at the inception of modern geopolitics but as an early thinker of biopolitics too. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:96e17cb1-3cb2-46c1-b409-14a89738b7f12022-03-26T23:55:59ZFriedrich Ratzel, Lebensraum and the death motifJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:96e17cb1-3cb2-46c1-b409-14a89738b7f1EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2018Klinke, IThis intervention explores ‘death’ as an interpretive key both to Friedrich Ratzel's Lebensraum essay and his oeuvre more generally. Ratzel, I argue, was preoccupied with death in a number of ways, including a biogeographical concern with extinction, an ethnological interest in cannibalism and a fascination with the ruins of exterminated civilisations. Indeed, Ratzel grappled with the aesthetics of death itself in the later stages of his life. An appreciation of Ratzel as a thanatological thinker, I argue, opens the door to a recognition of his place not just at the inception of modern geopolitics but as an early thinker of biopolitics too. |
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