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Biopolitics: A Reader

Biopolitics: A Reader

Campbell, Timothy
Sitze, Adam

Hardcover

Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0822353326
ISBN13: 9780822353324
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 9 2013
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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.

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