Campbell, Timothy C.

Improper life : technology and biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben / Timothy C. Campbell. - Minneapolis, Minn. : Bristol : University of Minnesota Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2011. - 232 p. ; 22 cm. - Posthumanities ; v. 18 . - Posthumanities ; v. 18. .

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.

Specialized.


Translated from the Italian.

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Biopolitics.
Death--Political aspects.
Technology--Philosophy.
Politics and Government.

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