The Republic of the Living : Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society /

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The aim of this book is to explain what makes the contemporary discourse of biopolitics essential both to the understanding and to the critique of modern civil society, as developed from Hegel and Marx up to Arendt, Foucault and Agamben. The book seeks to identify the affirmative political potential...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vatter, Miguel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Civil society > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Societe civile > Philosophie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The aim of this book is to explain what makes the contemporary discourse of biopolitics essential both to the understanding and to the critique of modern civil society, as developed from Hegel and Marx up to Arendt, Foucault and Agamben. The book seeks to identify the affirmative political potential found in the biopolitical category of natality, and its relation to both normality and normativity, within and between each sphere of civil society.
Physical Description:1 online resource (416 pages).
ISBN:9780823256051

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