Necrophilic Death Politics in Contemporary Western Political Thought (A Critical Study)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64184/ajlps.V3.I1.Y2026.P806-832.303Keywords:
: Necrophilia , politics of death , the permissible human being , liberal authority , Totalitarian powerAbstract
This study traverses two complementary chains, The first is necrophilia, meaning the love of death, and relates to a psychological deviation based on transforming every living thing into the dead, In other words, dealing with existence in a uniquely mechanistic way, one that seeks to destroy it, The second is the tendency to use technological power that has alienated humanity and distanced emotional aspects from the destructive outcome of using this energy, Thus, necrophilia is linked to the politics of death, of which the most important image is the violated human being, Thus, the study established the relationship between the politics of death and necrophilia and this being and the concept of sovereignty associated with it , It also focused on the politics of necrophilia and its relationship to totalitarian, vital, and liberal political power, Finally, it examines the images of these policies when we consider the Holocaust and then the contemporary genocide in Gaza.
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