Description: Paternal, patriarchal, and fraternal concepts, metaphors, and images have long dominated thinking about politics. But the political, Gil Anidjar argues, has always been maternal.
Review Quotes: Gil Anidjar is a brilliant and provocative thinker. In this book, he takes up a well-worn topic (mothers and mothering) and succeeds in generating exciting new formulations and original insights. This beautifully conceived book exhibits dazzling erudition, philosophical sophistication, and startling literary analysis to ask urgent political and philosophical questions.--Elissa Marder, author of The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction