{"product_id":"biopolitics-9780822353355","title":"Biopolitics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA compilation of the primary texts—by Foucault, Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, and other theorists—that laid the ground for contemporary thinking about biopolitics, or the relations between life and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A]n essential resource for graduate students and those new to the topic of biopolitics as well as a useful tool for the few with specialist knowledge.” -- Diana Stypinska * Sociological Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"This reader will be a landmark resource as scholarly engagement with biopolitics continues to expand in the coming years. It brings together in a single volume essential texts in the evolution of thinking about the biopolitical in the wake of the formative thought of Foucault and, later, Agamben. In addition, the selections are framed by a wonderfully nuanced and incisive introduction.\"—\u003cb\u003eCary Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBefore the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an indispensable collection, both for how it exposes the limits of Foucault’s thought and for the ways it illuminates the dark junctures of life and the sciences of Aristotle’s ‘master art’ politics.” -- David W. Swain * Kritikon Litterarum *\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eBiopolitics: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive overview of this diverse and multidisciplinary field. Editors Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze demonstrate that biopolitics is not merely an academic fad, but rather, that it marks ‘the intersection, or perhaps reciprocal incorporation, of life and politics.’\" -- Jay Daniel Thompson * Somatechnics *\u003cbr\u003e“[A] comprehensive resource for newcomers, as well as those already familiar with biopolitics.” -- Rosalind G. Williams * Political Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Biopolitics: An Encounter \/ Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze        1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Right of Death and Power over Life \/ Michel Foucault        41\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Society Must Be Defended,\" Lecture at the \u003ci\u003eCollége de France\u003c\/i\u003e, March 17, 1976 \/ Michel Foucault        61\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Perplexities of the Rights of Man \/ Hannah Arendt        82\u003cbr\u003e 4. Selections from \u003ci\u003eThe Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Hannah Arendt        98\u003cbr\u003e 5. Introduction to \u003ci\u003eHomo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Giorgio Agamben        134\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Politicization of Life \/ Giorgio Agamben        145\u003cbr\u003e 7. Biopolitics and the Rights of Man \/ Giorgio Agamben        152\u003cbr\u003e 8. Necropolitics \/ Achille Mbembe        161\u003cbr\u003e 9. Necro-economics: Adam Smith and Death in the Life of the Universal \/ Warren Montag        193\u003cbr\u003e 10. Biopolitical Production \/ Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri        215\u003cbr\u003e 11. Biopolitics as Event \/ Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri        237\u003cbr\u003e 12. Labor, Action, Intellect \/ Paolo Virno        245\u003cbr\u003e 13. An Equivocal Concept: Biopolitics \/ Paolo Virno        269\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse \/ Donna Haraway        274\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Immunological Transformation: On the Way to Thin-Walled \"Societies\" \/ Peter Sloterdijk        310\u003cbr\u003e 16. Biopolitics \/ Roberto Esposito        317\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Enigma of Biopolitics \/ Roberto Esposito        350\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Difficult Legacy of Michel Foucault \/ Jacques Rancière        386\u003cbr\u003e 19. From Politics to Biopolitics . . . and Back \/ Slavoj Zizek        391\u003cbr\u003e 20. What Is It to Live? \/ Alain Badiou        412\u003cbr\u003e 21. Immanence: A Life \/ Gilles Deleuze        421\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgment of Copyright        427\u003cbr\u003e Index        429","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528006836567,"sku":"9780822353355","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822353355.jpg?v=1731870037","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/biopolitics-9780822353355","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}