Biopolitics
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Author
Publication
2013 - Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
111,500 words, Guess
Page Count
446 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100822353326
- ISBN-100822353350
- ISBN-139780822353324
- ISBN-139780822353355
- Library of Congress Control Number2013032321
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number825047367
- Better World Books9780822353355
- Better World Books9780822353324
- Open LibraryOL28390405M
Classifications
- DDC320.01
- LCCJA80 .B547 2013
- LCCJA80.B547 2013
Description
"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."--Publisher's description.
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