This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of
biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the
humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of
the biopolitical-the relation of politics to life, or the state to
the body-is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as
healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the global distribution of
essential medicines and medical technologies.Michel Foucault gave
new and unprecedented meaning to the term "biopolitics" in his 1976
essay "Right of Death and Power over Life." In this anthology, that
touchstone piece is followed by essays in which biopolitics is
implicitly anticipated as a problem by Hannah Arendt and later
altered, critiqued, deconstructed, and refined by major political
and social theorists who explicitly engaged with Foucault's ideas.
By focusing on the concept of biopolitics, rather than applying it
to specific events and phenomena, this Reader provides an enduring
framework for assessing the central problematics of modern
political thought. Contributors. Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt,
Alain Badiou, Timothy Campbell, Gilles Deleuze, Roberto Esposito,
Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, Michael Hardt, Achille Mbembe,
Warren Montag, Antonio Negri, Jacques Ranciere, Adam Sitze, Peter
Sloterdijk, Paolo Virno, Slavoj Zizek
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