Biopolitics

Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian Studies and Chair of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi.Adam Sitze is Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. He is the author of The Impossible Machine: A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

• Introduction. Biopolitics: An Encounter / Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze 11. Right of Death and Power over Life / Michel Foucault 412. "Society Must Be Defended," Lecture at the Collége de France, March 17, 1976 / Michel Foucault 613. The Perplexities of the Rights of Man / Hannah Arendt 824. Selections from The Human Condition / Hannah Arendt 985. Introduction to Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life / Giorgio Agamben 1346. The Politicization of Life / Giorgio Agamben 1457. Biopolitics and the Rights of Man / Giorgio Agamben 1528. Necropolitics / Achille Mbembe 1619. Necro-economics: Adam Smith and Death in the Life of the Universal / Warren Montag 19310. Biopolitical Production / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 21511. Biopolitics as Event / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 23712. Labor, Action, Intellect / Paolo Virno 24513. An Equivocal Concept: Biopolitics / Paolo Virno 26914. The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse / Donna Haraway 27415. The Immunological Transformation: On the Way to Thin-Walled "Societies" / Peter Sloterdijk 31016. Biopolitics / Roberto Esposito 31717. The Enigma of Biopolitics / Roberto Esposito 35018. The Difficult Legacy of Michel Foucault / Jacques Rancière 38619. From Politics to Biopolitics . . . and Back / Slavoj Zizek 39120. What Is It to Live? / Alain Badiou 41221. Immanence: A Life / Gilles Deleuze 421Acknowledgment of Copyright 427Index 429

“[A]n essential resource for graduate students and those new to the topic of biopolitics as well as a useful tool for the few with specialist knowledge.” - Diana Stypinska (Sociological Review) “This is an indispensable collection, both for how it exposes the limits of Foucault’s thought and for the ways it illuminates the dark junctures of life and the sciences of Aristotle’s ‘master art’ politics.” - David W. Swain (Kritikon Litterarum)  "Biopolitics: A Reader provides a comprehensive overview of this diverse and multidisciplinary field. Editors Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze demonstrate that biopolitics is not merely an academic fad, but rather, that it marks ‘the intersection, or perhaps reciprocal incorporation, of life and politics.’" - Jay Daniel Thompson (Somatechnics) “[A] comprehensive resource for newcomers, as well as those already familiar with biopolitics.” - Rosalind G. Williams (Political Studies Review)