Democratic biopolitics : popular sovereignty and the power of life /

Democratic biopolitics : popular sovereignty and the power of life /

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Author / Creator:	Prozorov, Sergei, author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 212 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Edinburgh scholarship online Edinburgh scholarship online.
Subject:	Biopolitics. Biopolitics -- Philosophy. Democracy. Biopolitics. Democracy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12402465

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ISBN:	9781474449366 1474449360 9781474459839 1474459838 1474449344 9781474449342
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-209) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 --
Other form:	Print version: Prozorov, Sergei. Democratic biopolitics. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] 1474449344

Table of Contents:

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