The Biopolitics of Punishment - Derrida and Foucault (Paperback)

This volume marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault regarding argumentative methods and their political implications. The essays chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on questions of life, death, punishment, and power—an untapped point of departure from which we might continue to read the convergence and divergence of their work. What possibilities for political resistance might this dialogue uncover? And how might they relate to contemporary political crises? With the resurgence of fascism and authoritarianism across the globe, the rise of white supremacist and xenophobic violence, and the continued brutality of state-sanctioned and extrajudicial killings by police, border patrols, and ordinary citizens, there is a pressing need to critically analyze our political present. These essays bring to bear the critical force of Derrida's and Foucault's biopolitical thought to practices of mass incarceration, the death penalty, life without parole, immigration and detention, racism and police violence, transphobia, human and animal relations, and the legacies of colonization. At the heart of their biopolitics, the volume shows, lies the desire to deconstruct and resist in the name of a future that is more just and less policed. It is this impulse that makes reading their work together, at this moment, both crucial and worthwhile.

General

Imprint:	Northwestern University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2022
Editors:	Rick Elmore
Authors:	Ege Selin Islekel • Banu Bargu • Sarah Hansen • Tasmin Kimoto • María de la Cruz Salvador López • Michael Naas • Kelly Oliver • Brad Elliott Stone • Janos Toevs
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-8101-4487-3
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-8101-4487-5
Barcode:	9780810144873

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