Biopolitics
Subtitle: a reader
By: Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, editors
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780822353324; 9780822353355
Subjects: Biology; Philosophical aspects; Biopolitik; 08.42 philosophy of culture; Philosophy; Biopolitics; Philosophy of culture; Politics; Teori, filosofi
Description: "This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical--the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body--is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the global distribution of essential medicines and medical technologies. Michel Foucault gave new and unprecedented meaning to the term "biopolitics" in his 1976 essay "Right of Death and Power over Life." In this anthology, that touchstone piece is followed by essays in which biopolitics is implicitly anticipated as a problem by Hannah Arendt and later altered, critiqued, deconstructed, and refined by major political and social theorists who explicitly engaged with Foucault's ideas. By focusing on the concept of biopolitics, rather than applying it to specific events and phenomena, this Reader provides an enduring framework for assessing the central problematics of modern political thought."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "A John Hope Franklin Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The right of death and power over life / Michel Foucault; title: March 17, 1976 / Michel Foucault; title: The human condition [selections] / Hannah Arendt; title: The perplexities of the rights of man / Hannah Arendt; title: Introduction to Homo sacer : sovereign power and bare life / Giorgio Agamben; title: The politicization of life / Giorgio Agamben; title: Biopolitics and the rights of man / Giorgio Agamben; title: Necropolitics / Achille Mbembe; title: Necroeconomics : Adam Smith and death in the life of the universal / Warren Montag; title: Biopolitical production / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; title: Biopolitics as event / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; title: Labor, action, intellect / Paolo Virno; title: An equivocal concept : biopolitics / Paolo Virno; title: The immunological transformation : on the way to thin-walled 'societies' / Peter Sloterdijk; title: The biopolitics of postmodern bodies / Donna Haraway; title: Biopolitics / Roberto Esposito; title: The enigma of biopolitics / Roberto Esposito; title: The difficult legacy of Michel Foucault / Jacques Rancière; title: From politics to biopolitics ... and back / Slavoj Žižek; title: What is it to live? / Alain Badiou; title: Immanence : a life / Gilles Deleuze.