Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben

by Timothy C. Campbell

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816674655
• ISBN13: 9780816674657
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"