Democratic biopolitics : popular sovereignty and the power of life /
Prozorov, Sergei,
Democratic biopolitics : popular sovereignty and the power of life / Sergei Prozorov. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (vii, 212 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: Towards an experimental analytics of government -- 1 Rousseau's aporia -- 2 The community of solitary walkers -- PART 2 FREEFORM LIFE -- 3 Biopower and the politics of contingency -- 4 Is there a democratic form of life? -- 5 Demos distracted -- 6 How to enjoy democracy again (and again) -- Epilogue: Why democracy is good for life
Contemporary studies of biopolitics assume that the rise of biopolitical governance entails the eclipse of democracy. The abstract egalitarianism of democratic government appears to be incompatible with the concrete, particularist and individualising operations of biopower. Sergei Prozorov challenges the assumption that the biopolitical governance means the end of democracy, arguing for a positive synthesis of biopolitics and democracy. He develops a vision of democratic biopolitics where diverse forms of life can coexist on the basis of their reciprocal recognition as free, equal and in common. He demonstrates how this vision can be realised and sustained by using examples of our lived experience --
9781474449366
Biopolitics.
Biopolitics--Philosophy.
Democracy.
Electronic Books.
JA80 / .D466 2019
Democratic biopolitics : popular sovereignty and the power of life / Sergei Prozorov. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (vii, 212 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: Towards an experimental analytics of government -- 1 Rousseau's aporia -- 2 The community of solitary walkers -- PART 2 FREEFORM LIFE -- 3 Biopower and the politics of contingency -- 4 Is there a democratic form of life? -- 5 Demos distracted -- 6 How to enjoy democracy again (and again) -- Epilogue: Why democracy is good for life
Contemporary studies of biopolitics assume that the rise of biopolitical governance entails the eclipse of democracy. The abstract egalitarianism of democratic government appears to be incompatible with the concrete, particularist and individualising operations of biopower. Sergei Prozorov challenges the assumption that the biopolitical governance means the end of democracy, arguing for a positive synthesis of biopolitics and democracy. He develops a vision of democratic biopolitics where diverse forms of life can coexist on the basis of their reciprocal recognition as free, equal and in common. He demonstrates how this vision can be realised and sustained by using examples of our lived experience --
9781474449366
Biopolitics.
Biopolitics--Philosophy.
Democracy.
Electronic Books.
JA80 / .D466 2019