Biopolitics : a reader / Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, editors.
| Other author | Campbell, Timothy C. |
| Other author | Sitze, Adam. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2013. |
| Description | vii, 446 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Biopolitics : an encounter / Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze -- Right of death and power over life / Michel Foucault -- "Society must be defended," lecture at the Collège de France, March 17, 1976 / Michel Foucault -- The perplexities of the rights of man / Hannah Arendt -- Selections from The human condition / Hannah Arendt -- Introduction to Homo sacer : sovereign power and bare life / Giorgio Agamben -- The politicization of life / Giorgio Agamben -- Biopolitics and the rights of man / Giorgio Agamben -- Necropolitics / Achille Mbembe -- Necroeconomics : Adam Smith and death in the life of the universal / Warren Montag -- Biopolitical production / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- Biopolitics as event / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- Labor, action, intellect / Paolo Virno -- An equivocal concept : biopolitics / Paolo Virno -- The biopolitics of postmodern bodies : constitutions of self in immune system discourse / Donna Haraway -- The immunological transformation : on the way to thin-walled "societies" / Peter Sloterdijk -- Biopolitics / Roberto Esposito -- The enigma of biopolitics / Roberto Esposito -- The difficult legacy of Michel Foucault / Jacques Rancière -- From politics to biopolitics....and back / Slavoj Žižek -- What is it to live? / Alain Badiou -- Immanence : a life / Gilles Deleuze. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| General note | "A John Hope Franklin Book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2013032321 |
| ISBN | 9780822353324 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822353326 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822353355 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822353350 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | JA80 .B547 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |