On Biopolitics: An Inquiry into Nature and Language

ISBN-13: 9780367518783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 128 str.

Marco Piasentier

Opis

In On Biopolitics, Marco Piasentier discusses one of the most persistent questions in biopolitical theory – the divide between nature and language – and attempts to redraw the conceptual map which has traditionally defined the permissible paths to address this question.

Spis treści

Introduction: Vestiges of Anthropomorphism  1. The Command of Language  2. Is the Human Being a Living Creature?  3. The Death of Bartleby and the Paradise of Language  4. Erring According to Nature  5. The Blowing of the Wind and Natural Selection  6. The Ends of Nature

O autorze

Marco Piasentier is a Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and at the Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent, UK.