Biopolitics for philosophers

Roberto Esposito is an influential Italian political philosopher engaged in a renewal of the Foucauldian project of an ontology of the present. In his recent book Bíos, he rereads biopolitics through the lens of his paradigm of immunization (Esposito, 1998, 2002) and tries to explain how, in modernity, a politics of life ‘continually threatens to be reversed’ into a politics of death. His philosophical analysis is profound, and his genealogical reconstruction of the modern superimposition of politics and life innovative. However, his claims are weakened by his usage of a very abstract notion of biopolitics, which fails to take note of the current impact of scientific programmes on the human condition and the emergence of new biopolitical figures. The review suggests that lack of any interest toward the history of science as well as toward more empirically-oriented analyses remains a serious shortcoming of influential political philosophers

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• Between Ecclesiology and Ontology

  Charles Pemberton, Charles Samuel Christie Pemberton•Political Theology•2018

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• Strata of the Political

  Open Access•Michelle Pentecost, Thomas Cousins•Antipode•2017

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• The Confusions and Exuberances of Biopolitics

  Open Access•Paul Rutherford, Scott Rutherford et al.•Geography Compass•2013

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• How (Not) to Properly Abandon the Improper

  Ignaas Devisch•Angelaki•2013

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• Toward an Affirmative Biopolitics

  Open Access•Thomas F Tierney•Sociological Theory•2016

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• Roberto Esposito's 'Affirmative Biopolitics' and the Gift

  Open Access•Thomas F Tierney•Theory Culture & Society•2016

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• Picturing Personhood

  Joseph Dumit•Picturing Personhood•2004

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• The Politics of Life Itself

  Nikolas Rose•The Politics of Life Itself•2007

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• The Order of Things

  Michel Foucault•The Order of Things•2018

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• Is It Me or My Brain? Depression and Neuroscientific Facts

  Open Access•Joseph Dumit•Journal of Medical Humanities•2003

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• Foucault, Michel . Abnormal

  Open Access•Brad Elliott Stone•Foucault Studies•2004

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• Biopower Today

  Open Access•Paul Rabinow, Nikolas Rose•BioSocieties•2006

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• The Pharmaceutical Person

  Open Access•Emily Martin, Emily M Martin•BioSocieties•2006

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• Brainhood, anthropological figure of modernity

  Open Access•F Vidal•History of the Human Sciences•2009

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• The Biopolitics of Souls

  Open Access•Simona Forti•Political Theory•2006

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• The Birth of Biopolitics

  Open Access•Arnold I Davidson, Graham Burchell et al.•Birth of Biopolitics•2008

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• Biopolitics and Temporality in Arendt and Foucault

  Open Access•Kathrin Braun•Time & Society•2007

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• Totalitarianism or Biopolitics? Concerning a Philosophical Interpretation of the Twentieth Century

  Roberto Esposito•Critical Inquiry•2008

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• Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism

  Emmanuel Levinas, Sean Hand•Critical Inquiry•1990

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• French Enlightenment

  Paul Rabinow•Economy and Society•1998

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• Kant on Enlightenment and revolution∗

  Michel Foucault•Economy and Society•1986

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• Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual

  Carlos Novas, Nikolas Rose•Economy and Society•2000

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