The Resource The republic of the living : biopolitics and the critique of civil society, Miguel Vatter
The republic of the living : biopolitics and the critique of civil society, Miguel Vatter
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- Summary
- This book takes up Foucault's hypothesis that liberal "civil society," far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower. In order to test this hypothesis, its chapters examine the critical theory of civil society--from Hegel and Marx through Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, and Arendt--from the new horizon opened up by Foucault's turn to biopolitics and its reception in recent Italian theory. Negri, Agamben, and Esposito have argued that biopolitics not only denotes new forms of domination over life but harbors within it an affirmative relation between biological life and politics that carries an emancipatory potential. The chapters of this book take up this suggestion by locating this emancipatory potential in the biopolitical feature of the human condition that Arendt called "natality." The book proceeds to illustrate how natality is the basis for a republican articulation of an affirmative biopolitics. It aims to renew the critical theory of civil society by pursuing the traces of natality as 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. By contrast, natality offers the normative foundation for a new "republic of the living." Finally, natality permits us to establish a relation between biological life and contemplative life that reverses the long-held belief in a privileged relationship of thinking to the possibility of our death. The result is a materialist, atheological conception of contemplative life as eternal life.--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 403 pages
- Contents
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- The Tragedy of Civil Society and Republican Politics in Hegel
- Living Labor and Self-Generative Value in Marx
- Reification and Redemption of Bare Life in Adorno and Agamben
- Natality, Fertility, and Mimesis in Arendt's Theory of Freedom
- The Heroism of Sexuality in Benjamin and Foucault
- Free Markets and Republican Constitutions in Hayek and Foucault
- Biopolitical Cosmopolitanism: The Right to Have Rights in Arendt and Agamben
- Bare Life and Philosophical Life in Aristotle, Spinoza, and Heidegger
- Eternal Recurrence and the Now Revolution: Nietzsche and Messianic Marxism
- Isbn
- 9780823256020
- Label
- The republic of the living : biopolitics and the critique of civil society
- Title
- The republic of the living
- Title remainder
- biopolitics and the critique of civil society
- Statement of responsibility
- Miguel Vatter
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book takes up Foucault's hypothesis that liberal "civil society," far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower. In order to test this hypothesis, its chapters examine the critical theory of civil society--from Hegel and Marx through Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, and Arendt--from the new horizon opened up by Foucault's turn to biopolitics and its reception in recent Italian theory. Negri, Agamben, and Esposito have argued that biopolitics not only denotes new forms of domination over life but harbors within it an affirmative relation between biological life and politics that carries an emancipatory potential. The chapters of this book take up this suggestion by locating this emancipatory potential in the biopolitical feature of the human condition that Arendt called "natality." The book proceeds to illustrate how natality is the basis for a republican articulation of an affirmative biopolitics. It aims to renew the critical theory of civil society by pursuing the traces of natality as 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. By contrast, natality offers the normative foundation for a new "republic of the living." Finally, natality permits us to establish a relation between biological life and contemplative life that reverses the long-held belief in a privileged relationship of thinking to the possibility of our death. The result is a materialist, atheological conception of contemplative life as eternal life.--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vatter, Miguel E
- Dewey number
- 306.2
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JC337
- LC item number
- .V37 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Commonalities
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Civil society
- Biopolitics
- Label
- The republic of the living : biopolitics and the critique of civil society, Miguel Vatter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- The Tragedy of Civil Society and Republican Politics in Hegel -- Living Labor and Self-Generative Value in Marx -- Reification and Redemption of Bare Life in Adorno and Agamben -- Natality, Fertility, and Mimesis in Arendt's Theory of Freedom -- The Heroism of Sexuality in Benjamin and Foucault -- Free Markets and Republican Constitutions in Hayek and Foucault -- Biopolitical Cosmopolitanism: The Right to Have Rights in Arendt and Agamben -- Bare Life and Philosophical Life in Aristotle, Spinoza, and Heidegger -- Eternal Recurrence and the Now Revolution: Nietzsche and Messianic Marxism
- Control code
- 861678547
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9780823256020
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013050014
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861678547
- Label
- The republic of the living : biopolitics and the critique of civil society, Miguel Vatter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- The Tragedy of Civil Society and Republican Politics in Hegel -- Living Labor and Self-Generative Value in Marx -- Reification and Redemption of Bare Life in Adorno and Agamben -- Natality, Fertility, and Mimesis in Arendt's Theory of Freedom -- The Heroism of Sexuality in Benjamin and Foucault -- Free Markets and Republican Constitutions in Hayek and Foucault -- Biopolitical Cosmopolitanism: The Right to Have Rights in Arendt and Agamben -- Bare Life and Philosophical Life in Aristotle, Spinoza, and Heidegger -- Eternal Recurrence and the Now Revolution: Nietzsche and Messianic Marxism
- Control code
- 861678547
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9780823256020
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013050014
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861678547
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