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Improper life : technology and biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben /
Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? If this is true, what can life-minded thinkers put forward as the merits of biopolitical reflecti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Posthumanities ;
18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? If this is true, what can life-minded thinkers put forward as the merits of biopolitical reflection? These questions drive Improper Life, Timothy C. Campbell's dexterous inquiry-as-intervention. Campbell argues that a "crypto-thanatopolitics" can be teased out of Heidegger's critique of technology and that some of the leading scholars of biopolitics-including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, a |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 189 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816678433 081667843X 9781452946696 1452946698 |