The Republic of the Living : : Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society / / Miguel Vatter.
This book takes up Foucault’s hypothesis that liberal “civil society,” far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower. In order to test this hypothesis, its chapters exam...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Commonalities
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. Biopolitics of the Economy
- 1. THE TRAGEDY OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND REPUBLICAN POLITICS IN HEGEL
- 2. LIVING LABOR AND SELF-GENERATIVE VALUE IN MARX
- PART II Biopolitics of the Family
- 3. REIFICATION AND REDEMPTION OF BARE LIFE IN ADORNO AND AGAMBEN
- 4. NATALITY, FERTILITY, AND MIMESIS IN ARENDT’S THEORY OF FREEDOM
- 5. THE HEROISM OF SEXUALITY IN BENJAMIN AND FOUCAULT
- PART III. Biopolitics of Rights
- 6. FREE MARKETS AND REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTIONS IN HAYEK AND FOUCAULT
- 7. BIOPOLITICAL COSMOPOLITANISM
- PART IV. Biopolitics of Eternal Life
- 8. BARE LIFE AND PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE IN ARISTOTLE, SPINOZA, AND HEIDEGGER
- 9. ETERNAL RECURRENCE AND THE NOW OF REVOLUTION
- NOTES
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX