Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben - Couverture souple

Livre 10 sur 60: Posthumanities

Campbell, Timothy C.

 
9780816674657: Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben
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ISBN 10 : 0816674655 ISBN 13 : 9780816674657
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

Synopsis

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, and Peter Sloterdijk-have been substantively influenced by Heidegger's thought, particularly his reading of proper and improper writing. In fact, Campbell shows how all of these philosophers have pointed toward a tragic, thanatopolitical destination as somehow an inevitable result of technology. But in Improper Life he articulates a corrective biopolitics that can begin with rereadings of Foucault (especially his late work regarding the care and technologies of the self), Freud (notably his writings on the drives and negation), and Gilles Deleuze (particularly in the relation of attention to aesthetics).

Throughout Improper Life, Campbell insists that biopolitics can become more positive and productively asserts an affirmative technē not thought through thanatos but rather practiced through bíos.

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À propos de l?auteur

Timothy C. Campbell is professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0816674655
ISBN 13 
9780816674657
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
232
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9780816674640: Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben

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ISBN 10 :  0816674647 ISBN 13 :  9780816674640
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2011
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