Improper life : technology and biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben / Timothy C. Campbell.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Posthumanities ; v. 18.Publication details: Minneapolis, Minn. : Bristol : University of Minnesota Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2011Description: 232 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780816674640 (hbk.) :; 0816674647 (hbk.) :; 9780816674657 (pbk.) :; 0816674655 (pbk.) :Uniform titles: Vita impropria. English Subject(s): Biopolitics | Death -- Political aspects | Technology -- Philosophy | Politics and GovernmentDDC classification: 320'.01 Summary: Has biopolitics become thanatopolitics, a field obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? These questions drive 'Improper Life', Timothy Campbell's inquiry-as-intervention.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Has biopolitics become thanatopolitics, a field obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? These questions drive 'Improper Life', Timothy Campbell's inquiry-as-intervention.
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