Democratic biopolitics : popular sovereignty and the power of life /

Contemporary studies of biopolitics assume that the rise of biopolitical governance entails the eclipse of democracy. The abstract egalitarianism of democratic government appears to be incompatible with the concrete, particularist and individualising operations of biopower. Sergei Prozorov challenge...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prozorov, Sergei (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Series:Edinburgh scholarship online.
Subjects:
Biopolitics.
Biopolitics > Philosophy.
Democracy.
Biopolitique.
Biopolitique > Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY / Political
Biopolitics
Democracy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Towards an experimental analytics of government
  • 1 Rousseau's aporia
  • 2 The community of solitary walkers
  • PART 2 FREEFORM LIFE
  • 3 Biopower and the politics of contingency
  • 4 Is there a democratic form of life?
  • 5 Demos distracted
  • 6 How to enjoy democracy again (and again)
  • Epilogue: Why democracy is good for life

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