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Biopolitics An Advanced Introduction

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ISBN-10: 081475242X

ISBN-13: 9780814752425

Edition: 2011

Authors: Thomas Lemke, Monica Casper, Lisa Jean Moore

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 2/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.40" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Thomas Lemke is Heisenberg Professor for Sociology with Focus on Biotechnology, Nature and Society at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Monica J. Casper is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Women's Studies, and Director of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, at Arizona State University's New College. She is author of The Making of the Unborn Patient.

Lisa Jean Moore is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies and Coordinator of Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is author of Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man’s Most Precious Fluid and co-author of Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility and Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee . She is also co-editor of the collection The Body Reader and, with Monica Casper, oversees the series Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the Twenty-First Century for NYU Press.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Life as the Basis of Politics
Life as an Object of Politics
The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault
Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben
Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics
The End and Reinvention of Nature
Vital Politics and Bioeconomy
Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics
Notes
References
Index
About the Author