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Title:
Improper life : technology and biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben
Author:
Campbell, Timothy C.
ISBN:
9780816678433
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 189 pages).
Series:
Posthumanities ; 18

Posthumanities ; 18.
Abstract:
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.
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