The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society

The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society

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Author/Contributor(s): Vatter, Miguel
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Date: 07/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
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A study of the critical theory of "civil society" from the perspective of post-Foucaultian biopolitics. This book pursues the possibility of an affirmative politics of life based on what Arendt called natality, a "surplus of life" that resists the oppressive government of life found in the capitalist political economy, in the liberal system of rights, and in the bourgeois family, and that offers a normative groundwork for a new "republic of the living."