The Republic Of The Living: Biopolitics And The Critique Of Civil Society (Commonalities)

A study of the critical theory of "civil society" from the perspective of post-Foucaultian biopolitics. This book pursues the possibility of an affirmative politics of life based on what Arendt called natality, a "surplus of life" that resists the oppressive government of life found in the capitalist political economy, in the liberal system of rights, and in the bourgeois family, and that offers a normative groundwork for a new "republic of the living." 9780823256020 0823256022 403 BOOK Philosophy NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hIpVngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Miguel E. Vatter
• | Publisher: Fordham University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 416 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0823256022
• | ISBN-13: 9780823256020