Biopolitics For Beginners
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Biopolitics For Beginners
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Author : Ottavio Marzocca
language : en
Publisher: Mimesis
Release Date : 2021-02-25T00:00:00+01:00
Biopolitics For Beginners written by Ottavio Marzocca and has been published by Mimesis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-25T00:00:00+01:00 with Political Science categories.
The term biopolitics can be fully understood only within the context of modern forms of governing society. From this perspective, the development of modern medical knowledge, the re-organization of the hospital as a health institution, the growing attention to issues related to population, and the rise of biological knowledge can be connected with the infl uence of economic rationality on the most important political strategies. In this book, the crucial role that the family has played throughout the history of biopolitics is also explored explaining how it is fi rstly a place of government of life as well as a means to extend various forms of biopower to the whole society. By analysing the works of key fi gures in the debate on biopolitics – such as Agamben, Negri, Esposito, Rose, Cooper, among others – this volume offers a systematic examination of this notion also in relation to the current ecological crisis and the pandemic of Covid-19, addressing fundamental problems of political thought and referring to great thinkers such as Foucault and Arendt, Plato and Aristotle. Mimesis International
Arendt Natality And Biopolitics
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Author : Rosalyn Diprose
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-17
Arendt Natality And Biopolitics written by Rosalyn Diprose and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-17 with Philosophy categories.
A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind 'see'
A Beginner S Guide To Social Theory
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Author : Shaun Best
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2003-02-24
A Beginner S Guide To Social Theory written by Shaun Best and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-24 with Social Science categories.
Best offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day. The reader is guided through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and contemporary thinkers like Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Gilles Deluze, Manuel Castells, Luce Irigary, Naomi Woolf and Camille Paglia.
Bioethical Principles Of The Personal Domain
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Author : Michele Karaboue
language : en
Publisher: Youcanprint
Release Date : 2025-01-30
Bioethical Principles Of The Personal Domain written by Michele Karaboue and has been published by Youcanprint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-30 with Fiction categories.
This work aims to analyse the thoughts of H.T. Engelhardt on some of the central themes of contemporary bioethical debate. The area in question includes the observation of the de facto existence of a highly plural society, i.e. one that is characterized from a moral point of view by an intrinsic pluralism. Central to this context is the concept of the person, which, contrary to any broad consensus on how this should be understood, requires extensive reflection to provide an appropriate definition. To speak of the "human person" also means necessarily addressing the rational capacity that characterises them, which is then strongly questioned from a theoretical point of view by the postmodern context of the plural society and Engelhardt himself. The importance of offering an adequate semanticization of the concept of the person is apparent when it becomes clear that this represents the key to addressing problems arising from a bioethical point of view. The main aim of this research will therefore be to understand (starting from an analysis of Engelhardt's thought, which provides much food for thought to this end) whether there is still room within contemporary debate for the use of the concept of the person which is capable of guaranteeing their protection in a well-founded manner, i.e. by leveraging capacity of reason to identify a non-arbitrary hierarchy of goods in a substantial way. This forms part of an overview of the fundamental features of the contemporary context, which is characterised by a crisis that affects each sector, cultural and otherwise, so undermining any possibility of achieving any degree of certainty.
Biopolitics
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Author : Catherine Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Biopolitics written by Catherine Mills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Biology categories.
The first part of the book provides a much-needed philosophical introduction to key theoretical approaches to the concept in contemporary usage. In the second part of the book, Mills discusses various topics across the categories of politics, life and subjectivity.
Biopower
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Author : Vernon W. Cisney
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-12-28
Biopower written by Vernon W. Cisney and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-28 with Philosophy categories.
Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, or destroying them.” With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of biopower has enabled while at the same time pinpointing their most important shared resonances. Situating biopower as a radical alternative to traditional conceptions of power—what Foucault called “sovereign power”—the contributors examine a host of matters centered on life, the body, and the subject as a living citizen. Altogether, they pay testament to the lasting relevance of biopower in some of our most important contemporary debates on issues ranging from health care rights to immigration laws, HIV prevention discourse, genomics medicine, and many other topics.
The Reeducation Of Race
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Author : Sonali Thakkar
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-28
The Reeducation Of Race written by Sonali Thakkar and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as conceptual common sense and a justification for colonial rule was challenged with new intensity. In response to this crisis of race, the UN and UNESCO initiated a project of racial reeducation. This global antiracist campaign was framed by the persecution of Europe's Jews and anchored by UNESCO's epochal 1950 Statement on Race, which redefined the race concept and canonized the midcentury liberal antiracist consensus that continues to shape our present. In this book, Sonali Thakkar tells the story of how UNESCO's race project directly influenced anticolonial thought and made Jewish difference and the Holocaust enduring preoccupations for anticolonial and postcolonial writers. Drawing on UNESCO's rich archival resources and shifting between the scientific, social scientific, literary, and cultural, Thakkar offers new readings of a varied collection of texts from the postcolonial, Jewish, and Black diasporic traditions. Anticolonial thought and postcolonial literature critically recast liberal scientific antiracism, Thakkar argues, and the concepts central to this new moral economy were the medium for postcolonialism's engagement with Jewishness. By recovering these connections, she shows how the midcentury crisis of racial meaning shaped the kinds of solidarities between racialized subjects that are thinkable today.
For A New Critique Of Political Economy
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Author : Bernard Stiegler
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2010-11
For A New Critique Of Political Economy written by Bernard Stiegler and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Social Science categories.
The catastrophic economic, social and political crisis of our time calls for a new and original critique of political economy Ð a rethinking of Marx’s project in the very different conditions of twenty-first century capitalism. Stiegler argues that today the proletarian must be reconceptualized as the economic agent whose knowledge and memory are confiscated by machines. This new sense of the term ‘proletarian’ is best understood by reference to Plato’s critique of exteriorized memory. By bringing together Plato and Marx, Stiegler can show how a generalized proletarianization now encompasses not only the muscular system, as Marx saw it, but also the nervous system of the so-called creative workers in the information industries. The proletarians of the former are deprived of their practical know-how, whereas the latter are shorn of their theoretical practice, and both suffer from a confiscation of the very possibility of a genuine art of living. But the mechanisms at work in this new and accentuated form of proletarianization are the very mechanisms that may spur a reversal of the process. Such a reversal would imply a crucial distinction between one’s life work, originating in otium (leisure devoted to the techniques of the self), and the job, consisting in a negotium (the negotiation and calculation, increasingly restricted to short-term expectations), leading to the necessity of a new conception of economic value. This short text offers an excellent introduction to Stiegler’s work while at the same time representing a political call to arms in the face of a deepening economic and social crisis.
U S Constitution For Beginners
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Author : Steve Bachmann
language : en
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Release Date : 2012-04-17
U S Constitution For Beginners written by Steve Bachmann and has been published by Red Wheel/Weiser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with Political Science categories.
In a combination of witty text and illustrations U.S. Constitution For Beginners take a tongue-in-cheek look at America’s most critical legal document. Author and lawyer Steve Bachmann has written a text that touches on the document’s history beginning with the Magna Carta. He then traces the events that precipitated its writing, the personalities and motives of the people who create it, and its use and misuses since ratification. U.S. Constitution For Beginners analyzes crucial elements of this binding set of principles and ponders the future of the Constitution as well as the role of American citizens. Though hotly debated and constantly reinterpreted, the Constitution has survived wars, industrialization, expansion and politicians.
Il Giardino Biopolitico
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Author : Paola Viganò
language : it
Publisher: Donzelli Editore
Release Date : 2024-01-26T00:00:00+01:00
Il Giardino Biopolitico written by Paola Viganò and has been published by Donzelli Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-26T00:00:00+01:00 with Architecture categories.
Architettura e urbanistica hanno certamente a che fare con la vita, ma la frequenza del suo richiamo all’interno di discorsi e pratiche progettuali è molto variata nel tempo. La riflessione biopolitica di Michel Foucault, estesa all’urbanistica moderna da Bernardo Secchi nel suo ultimo scritto dedicato alla tradizione europea di disegno urbano, illumina una fondamentale chiave di lettura della relazione instabile e composita tra spazio, vita e potere. Paola Viganò riparte da questi ragionamenti e li porta alle loro estreme conseguenze. L’ipotesi della transizione ecologica e sociale come nuovo progetto biopolitico colloca questo libro in un ampio quadro concettuale, chiarendo la rinnovata centralità della vita in ogni ricerca sul futuro dello spazio alle diverse scale. Il libro discute dei modi nei quali il suo progetto può contribuire a dare forma ad un’azione biopolitica affermativa, di emancipazione sostanziale; considera lo spazio un capitale collettivo, supporto, agente essenziale per adattare la nostra vita a condizioni profondamente cambiate. Al di là della crisi ecologica e della nuova coscienza che l’accompagna, Paola Viganò riporta in luce la complessa relazione tra spazio e vita, tra corpi, popolazioni, spazio e potere; la sua centralità nel presente e nel futuro del progetto della città.