{"product_id":"9780271093406","title":"The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eMurray, Stuart J\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePenn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e09\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e NEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we reckon with ethical responsibility when we are complicit in sacrificial economies that produce and tolerate death as a necessity of life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that biopower can be fully exposed only through an analysis of those whom society has \"let die,\" Stuart J. Murray employs a series of transdisciplinary case studies to uncover the structural and rhetorical conditions through which biopower works. These case studies include the concept of \"sacrifice\" in the \"war\" against COVID-19, where emergent cultures of pandemic \"resistance\" are explored alongside suicide bombings and military suicides; the California mass hunger strikes of 2013; legal cases involving \"preventable\" and \"untimely\" childhood deaths, exposing the irreconcilable claims of anti-vaxxers and Indigenous peoples; and the videorecording of the death of a disabled Black man. Murray demonstrates that active resistance to biopower inevitably reproduces tropes of \"making live\" and \"letting die.\" His counter to this fact is a critical stance of disaffirmation, one in which death disrupts the politics of life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA philosophically nuanced critique of biopower, \u003ci\u003eThe Living from the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on life, death, power, language, and control in the twenty-first century. It will appeal to students and scholars of rhetoric, philosophy, and critical theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43380899119359,"sku":"9780271093406","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/products\/9780271093406-us-300.jpg?v=1665426052","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780271093406","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}