Biopolitics and historic justice : coming to terms with the injuries of normality Human rights violations linked to norms of health fitness and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. This book introduces the concept of »injuries of normality« to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for historic justice. It examines the processes of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the context of coercive sterilization institutional killings as well as the persecution of LGBTQ people and of »asocials« under Nazi rule. It argues that an analytic perspective on political temporality allows us to better understand the formation of these biopolitical human rights violations and their exclusion from memory and historic justice Frontmatter Contents 1 Introduction: Coming to Terms with Biopolitics Temporality and Historic Justice 2 Biopolitics and Modernity: Revisiting the Eugenics Project 3 Nazi Sterilization Policy Second Order Injustice and the Struggle for Reparations 4 Justice at Last: The Persecution of Homosexual Men and the Politics of Amends 5 Marginal Justice: Coming to Terms with the Persecution of the Asocials 6 Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault on Biopolitics Time and Totalitarianism 7 Increasing the Forces of Life: Biopolitics Capitalism and Time in Marx and Foucault Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations References