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Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben

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Description for Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.

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, ... Read more

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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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Posthumanities
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816674657
SKU
V9780816674657
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Ref
99-50

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

Reviews for Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben
"Broadening biopower beyond its Nazi encampments in order to build a critique of liberalism, Timothy C. Campbell argues that modern politics captures life through invasive technologies of communication and consumption that promise protection from mortality, disability, boredom, and loneliness. Campbell links mass media and bioengineering to the birth of a global petty bourgeoisie defined by a terrifying lack of distance ... Read more

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