Improper life : technology and biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben
by
Campbell, Timothy C.
Title
:
Improper life : technology and biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben
Author
:
Campbell, Timothy C.
ISBN
:
9780816678433
Publication Information
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (x, 189 pages).
Series
:
Posthumanities ; 18
Posthumanities ; 18.
Abstract
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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.
Subject Term
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Biopolitics.
Death -- Political aspects.
Technology -- Philosophy.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 376178-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |