Foreword by Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Preface Introduction 1 Life as the Basis of Politics 2 Life as an Object of Politics 3 The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault 4 Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben 5 Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 6 The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics 7 The End and Reinvention of Nature 8 Vital Politics and Bioeconomy 9 Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics Notes References Index About the Author
A compilation of the primary texts-by Foucault, Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, and other theorists-that laid the ground for contemporary thinking about biopolitics, or the relations between life and politics.
Thomas Lemke is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is author of A Critique of Political Reason: Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality and Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction.
"What Lemkes final chapter makes plain, and what can thus be read
back into the book on the whole...is that biopolitics is a coherent
field of inquiry for future work in anthropology, sociology,
science studies, and of course history and philosophy, and that it
is such precisely because it is a field of inquiry, namely an arena
for rigorous investigation and severe thought... This is a crucial
task. Lemke is to be applauded for showing both its coherence and
its needfulness."
*Theory & Event*
"Thomas Lemke's Biopolitics: An Advanced Introductionis required
reading for anyone interested in this concept."
*New Genetics and Society*
"[This book] advances an analytics of 'biopolitics' as a
'prospective' methodological approach, offering a number of
valuable and provocative questions to guide future research."
*Foucault Studies*
"Lemke (Goethe Univ., Germany) offers an overview of biopolitics
and an account of its relevance in theoretical debate...
Recommended."
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