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Essay Review

Biopolitics Between History and Philosophy

Pages 405-415 | Received 19 Jul 2012, Accepted 19 Jul 2012, Published online: 24 Sep 2012
 

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1Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein, ‘Cracking Biopower’, History of the Human Sciences, 23 (2010), 109–28 (109). See also Nikolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Centur, (Princeton, 2007); and Roberto Esposito, Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (Minneapolis, 2008).

2See also Martha C. Nussbaum, Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Princeton, 2010); Stefan Collini, What are Universities For? (London, 2012).

3Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose, ‘Biopower Today’, BioSocieties, 1 (2006), 195–217 (198).

4Cooter and Stein, ‘Cracking Biopower’, 117.

5Cooter and Stein, ‘Cracking Biopower’, 123.

6For a recent, critical appreciation of discussion of Heidegger's importance to the analysis of scientific knowledge and practices, see Jeff Kochan,‘Latour's Heidegger’, Social Studies of Science, 40 (2010), 579–98; see also David Farrell Krell, Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy (Bloomington, 1992), 84–98.

7‘Only a God Can Save Us’ (1966); URL: http://www.ditext.com/heidegger/interview.html (last accessed 25 April 2012).

8In this regard, Agamben's critique resembles Jacques Derrida's seminal critique of Madness and Civilization. Derrida did not dispute Foucault's thesis that the relationship between reason and madness is historical, but called into question the possibility of writing a history madness that was truthful to such an understanding. See ‘Cogito and the History of Madness’, in Derrida, Writing and Difference (London, 1997), 31–63.

9Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (London, 1991), 30.

10Campbell draws attention to Joãh Biehl's impressive studies of medicine, institutional innovation and citizenship in contemporary Brazil (74–6). See also Nancy Scheper-Hughes’ more general discussion in ‘Bodies for Sale – Whole or in Parts’, in Scheper-Hughes and Loïc J. D. Wacquant (eds.), Commodifying Bodies (London, 2002), 1–8 (8). Significantly, however, here, as elsewhere, Campbell is strangely silent about Paul Rabinow's discussion of the limitations of the juridical concept of the person when it comes to governing the relationship between the person and the body; see Rabinow, French DNA: Touble in Purgatory (Chicago, 1999), 101–6.

11See also Paul Rabinow, Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment (Princeton, 2003), 80–3.

12See also Jenny Reardon, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics (Princeton, 2005).

13Michel Foucault, ‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, History’, in James Faubion (ed.), Michel Foucault: Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (London, 2000), 369–91 (374).

14Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Foucault, Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Chicago, 1983). For a discussion of the current state of the argument over the relationship between Foucault and Heidegger, see Timothy Rayner, Foucault's Heidegger: Philosophy and Transformative Experience (London, 2007).

16Stelarc, as quoted in Howard Caygill, ‘Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture’, in Barbara Adam et al. (eds.), The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory (London, 2000), 155–64 (162).

15See Catherine Mills, ‘Playing with Law: Agamben and Derrida on Postjuridical Justice’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 107 (2008), 15–36.

17See Rabinow, Anthropos Today, 57–75.

18See also Gil Anidjar, ‘The Meaning of Life’, Critical Inquiry, 37 (2011), 697–723.

19See Arne De Boever, ‘Overhearing Bartleby: Agamben, Melville, and Inoperative Power’, Parrhesia, 1 (2006), 142–62; also ‘I am sure that you are more pessimistic than I am …’ An Interview with Giorgio Agamben’, Rethinking Marxism, 16 (2004), 115–24.

20Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 194.

21Michel Foucault, Society Must be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 19751976 (London, 2004), 260.

22See also my ‘Miranda's Story: Molecules, Populations and the Mortal Organism’, History of the Human Sciences, 24 (2011), 1–20.

23Foucault, ‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, History’, 386.

24Rabinow, French DNA, 174.

25Cooter and Stein, ‘Cracking Biopower’, 124.

26See Bèatrice Han, Michel Foucault's Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and the Historical (Stanford, 2002).

27Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations (Cambridge, 1983), 94.

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