Biopolitics
By: Catherine Mills
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780203732588
Subjects: Biopolitics; Philosophy; Biopolitique; Philosophie
Description: "The concept of biopolitics has been one of the most important and widely used in recent years in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. In Biopolitics, Mills provides a wide-ranging and insightful introduction to the field of biopolitical studies. The first part of the book provides a much-needed philosophical introduction to key theoretical approaches to the concept in contemporary usage. This includes discussions of the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Roberto Esposito, and Antonio Negri. In the second part of the book, Mills discusses various topics across the categories of politics, life and subjectivity. These include questions of sovereignty and governmentality, violence, rights, technology, reproduction, race, and sexual difference. This book will be an indispensable guide for those wishing to gain an understanding of the central theories and issues in biopolitical studies. For those already working with the concept of biopolitics, it provides challenging and provocative insights and argues for a ground-breaking reorientation of the field."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half Title; title: Title Page; title: Copyright Page; title: Table of Contents; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Structure; title: References; title: Part 1; title: Chapter 1 A new regime of power: Foucault; title: Right of death and power over life; title: Knowledge of life: The birth of modern biology; title: Genealogies of power: Sovereignty, biopower, governmentality; title: Subjectivity and freedom: Bios as a work of art; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: References; title: Chapter 2 Biopolitics as thanatopolitics: Agamben; title: Sovereignty and sacredness: The twin evils of biopolitics; title: The living and/or the dead: Bare life Sacredness versus beatitude; or bare life and form-of-life; title: Toward an ethics beyond guilt; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: References; title: Chapter 3 Totalitarianism and the political animal: Arendt; title: The origins of totalitarianism; title: Politics as action: The Human Condition; title: Arendt and biopolitics; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: References; title: Chapter 4 Affirmative biopolitics: Negri and Esposito; title: The power of the multitude; title: The immunization paradigm; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: References; title: Part 2; title: Chapter 5 Politics: Sovereignty, violence, rightsSovereignty and government; title: Violence; title: Rights; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: References; title: Chapter 6 Life: Biology, technology, reproduction; title: Biology; title: Technology; title: Reproduction; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: References; title: Chapter 7 Subjectivity: Persons, race, gender; title: Persons and humans; title: Race; title: Sex/Gender; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: References; title: Concluding remarks; title: References