This book is a major reassessment of Michael Weinstein s political philosophy. It situates his singular contribution, designated as "critical vitalism," in the context of both canonical American and contemporary continental theory. Weinstein is presented as a philosopher of life and as an American Nietzsche. Yet the contributors also persuasively argue for this form of thinking as a prescient prophecy addressing contemporary society s concern over the management of life as well as the technological changes that both threaten and sustain intimacy. This is the first full scale study of...