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Biopower
Vernon W. Cisney
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Description for Biopower
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226226620
SKU
V9780226226620
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About Vernon W. Cisney
Vernon W. Cisney is a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon : An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, as well as coeditor or cotranslator of several other books. Nicolae Morar is assistant professor of philosophy and environmental studies and an associate member with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at ... Read more
Reviews for Biopower
Biopower is a remarkable book. Although it contains essays written by the most important and well-known commentators on Foucault, it is really more than a study of Foucault s concept of biopower. The majority of the essays expands, extends, and transforms the concept of biopower. Like all of the essays in the volume, the introduction written by Morar and ... Read more