Biopolitics For Beginners

Author : Ottavio Marzocca
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788869773372

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Biopolitics for beginners by Ottavio Marzocca Pdf

The term biopolitics can be fully understood only within the context of modern forms of governing society. From this perspective, the development of modern medical knowledge, the re-organization of the hospital as a health institution, the growing attention to issues related to population, and the rise of biological knowledge can be connected with the infl uence of economic rationality on the most important political strategies. In this book, the crucial role that the family has played throughout the history of biopolitics is also explored explaining how it is fi rstly a place of government of life as well as a means to extend various forms of biopower to the whole society. By analysing the works of key fi gures in the debate on biopolitics – such as Agamben, Negri, Esposito, Rose, Cooper, among others – this volume offers a systematic examination of this notion also in relation to the current ecological crisis and the pandemic of Covid-19, addressing fundamental problems of political thought and referring to great thinkers such as Foucault and Arendt, Plato and Aristotle. Mimesis International

Author : Rosalyn Diprose
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474444361

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Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics by Rosalyn Diprose Pdf

A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind 'see'

Author : Catherine Mills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351401869

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Biopolitics by Catherine Mills Pdf

The concept of biopolitics has been one of the most important and widely used in recent years in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. In Biopolitics, Mills provides a wide-ranging and insightful introduction to the field of biopolitical studies. The first part of the book provides a much-needed philosophical introduction to key theoretical approaches to the concept in contemporary usage. This includes discussions of the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Roberto Esposito, and Antonio Negri. In the second part of the book, Mills discusses various topics across the categories of politics, life and subjectivity. These include questions of sovereignty and governmentality, violence, rights, technology, reproduction, race, and sexual difference. This book will be an indispensable guide for those wishing to gain an understanding of the central theories and issues in biopolitical studies. For those already working with the concept of biopolitics, it provides challenging and provocative insights and argues for a ground-breaking reorientation of the field.

Author : Thomas C. Wiegele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Biologie
ISBN : 0891587519

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Biopolitics by Thomas C. Wiegele Pdf

Author : Thomas Lemke,Monica J. Casper,Lisa Jean Moore
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814752993

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Biopolitics by Thomas Lemke,Monica J. Casper,Lisa Jean Moore Pdf

The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational decision-making and the democratic organization of social life to eugenics and racism, Thomas Lemke offers the very first systematic overview of the history of the notion of biopolitics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic. Lemke explains that life has become an independent, objective and measurable factor as well as a collective reality that can be separated from concrete living beings and the singularity of individual experience. He shows how our understanding of the processes of life, the organizing of populations and the need to “govern” individuals and collectives lead to practices of correction, exclusion, normalization, and disciplining. In this lucidly written book, Lemke outlines the stakes and the debates surrounding biopolitics, providing a systematic overview of the history of the notion and making clear its relevance for sociological and contemporary theoretical debates.

Author : Thomas Landon Thorson
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036412984

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Biopolitics by Thomas Landon Thorson Pdf

Author : A. V. Oleskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biopolitics
ISBN : 1620810883

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Biopolitics by A. V. Oleskin Pdf

In the 21st century, the life sciences exert a considerable influence on the humanities and social sciences. People around the world pin their hopes on biology (which can help overcome the ecological crisis and produce new kinds of cheap food) and are concerned about possible risks associated with its developments (such as the possible creation of genetic mutants and cloned humans). Biological knowledge is being increasingly applied to issues related to ethics, linguistics, aesthetics, history, and politics. Biology is currently making a significant contribution to the development of new guidelines concerning the economic and cultural progress of humankind. This book concentrates on an important aspect of the biological mission in the present-day world--on its social and political implications. Taken together, they are referred to as biopolitics in this book.

Author : Vernon W. Cisney,Nicolae Morar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226226767

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Biopower by Vernon W. Cisney,Nicolae Morar Pdf

Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, or destroying them.” With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of biopower has enabled while at the same time pinpointing their most important shared resonances. Situating biopower as a radical alternative to traditional conceptions of power—what Foucault called “sovereign power”—the contributors examine a host of matters centered on life, the body, and the subject as a living citizen. Altogether, they pay testament to the lasting relevance of biopower in some of our most important contemporary debates on issues ranging from health care rights to immigration laws, HIV prevention discourse, genomics medicine, and many other topics.

Author : Shaun Best
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761965335

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A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory by Shaun Best Pdf

Best offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day. The reader is guided through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and contemporary thinkers like Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Gilles Deluze, Manuel Castells, Luce Irigary, Naomi Woolf and Camille Paglia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:642979475

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Biopolitics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sara Raimondi,Marco Piasentier
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800887965

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Debating Biopolitics by Sara Raimondi,Marco Piasentier Pdf

Emerging out of the theoretical and practical urge to reflect on key contemporary debates arising in biopolitical scholarship, this timely book launches an in-depth investigation into the concept and history of biopolitics. In light of tumultuous political dynamics across the globe and new developments in this continually evolving field, the book reconsiders and expands upon Michel Foucault's input to biopolitical studies. Featuring rigorously structured investigations into the genealogies, dimensions, and practices of biopolitics, this incisive book introduces novel voices and perspectives into the biopolitical corpus. Contributions from eminent scholars investigate core topics of governing populations, community, and sovereignty, as well as exploring areas that remain undertheorized in the field of biopolitics, including the political accounts of non-human entities, developments in sexual health policy, and the biopolitics of time. Broad in scope, the book draws from the foundations of the biopolitical canon to forge new horizons and create opportunities for novel theoretical and empirical analysis. Debating Biopolitics will be an invaluable tool for scholars and postgraduate students of political science and political philosophy. Its empirically driven research will also benefit practitioners and policymakers interested in the biopolitical dimension of decision-making and policy analysis.

Author : Albert Somit
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1559384409

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Biopolitics and the Mainstream by Albert Somit Pdf

Author : Prozorov Sergei Prozorov
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474449373

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Democratic Biopolitics by Prozorov Sergei Prozorov Pdf

Sergei Prozorov challenges the assumption that the biopolitical governance means the end of democracy, arguing for a positive synthesis of biopolitics and democracy. By critically re-engaging with canonical theories of biopolitics from Foucault, Agamben and Esposito, and introducing Nancy, Badiou and Lefort to the discussion, he develops a vision of democratic biopolitics where diverse forms of life can coexist on the basis of their reciprocal recognition as free, equal and in common. He demonstrates how this vision can be realised and sustained by using examples of our lived experience.

Author : Thomas C. Wiegele
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1979-11-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015002400631

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Biopolitics by Thomas C. Wiegele Pdf

Author : Tony Wohlers,Amy Fletcher
Publisher : Emerald Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1802621083

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Biopolitics at 50 Years by Tony Wohlers,Amy Fletcher Pdf

Biopolitics at 50 Years: Founding and Evolution explores the study of biology and politics through the prism of fifty years of experience presenting current research that illustrates the nature and evolution of biopolitics.