Biotheory: Life and Death under Capitalism (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

By: Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Peter Hitchcock

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Synopsis: Forged at the intersection of intense interest in the pertinence and uses of biopolitics and biopower, this volume analyzes theoretical and practical paradigms for understanding and challenging the socioeconomic determinations of life and death in contemporary capitalism. Its contributors offer a series of trenchant interdisciplinary critiques, each one taking on both the specific dimensions of biopolitics and the deeper genealogies of cultural logic and structure that crucially inform its impress. New ways to think about biopolitics as an explanatory model are offered, and the subject of bios (life, ways of life) itself is taken into innovative theoretical possibilities. On the one hand, biopolitics is addressed in terms of its contributions to forms and divisions of knowledge; on the other, its capacity for reformulation is assessed before the most pressing concerns of contemporary living. It is a must read for anyone concerned with the study of bios in its theoretical profusions.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781000034691
Related ISBNs:: 9781003021506, 9780367416119, 9780367416119
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/20/20
Copyrighted By:: Taylor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Edited by:: Peter Hitchcock