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1	Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer more books like this by Mr. Andrew Norris (Editor) add to wishlist The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of modern sovereignty that he has developed in his multi-volume project Homo Sacer. Agamben insists that like the ancient sovereign state, the modern nation ... see all copies from $14.20! new only from $23.95! \| SVS
2	Public Goods, Private Goods more books like this by Raymond Geuss add to wishlist Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is, for instance, widely held that the state may address human action in the 'public' realm but not in ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $9.87! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Commodifying Bodies more books like this by Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Editor), Professor Loic Wacquant (Editor) add to wishlist Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of ... see all copies from $23.50! new only from $49.86!
4	BIOS: Biopolitics and Philosophy more books like this by Roberto Esposito, Timothy Campbell (Translator) add to wishlist Roberto Esposito is one of the most prolific and important exponents of contemporary Italian political theory. Bios"-his first book to be translated into English-builds on two decades of highly regarded thought, including his thesis that the modern individual-with all of its civil and political rights as well as its moral powers-is an attempt to ... see all copies from $22.05! new only from $22.05! \| SVS
5	The Nature of Politics more books like this by Roger D Masters add to wishlist This important and original book examines the nature of politics from a perspective cutting across conventional academic disciplines. Returning to the traditional emphasis on human nature as the foundation of politics, Roger D. Masters links major issues in Western political philosophy with contemporary research in the life sciences. By relating ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	To Govern Evolution: Further Adventures of the Political Animal more books like this by Walter Truett Anderson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.93! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Political Animal: Biology, Ethics and Politics more books like this by Stephen R L Clark, R Clark Stephen add to wishlist People, as Aristotle said, are political animals. Mainstream political philosophy, however, has largely neglected humankind's animal nature as beings who are naturally equipped, and inclined, to reason and work together, create social bonds and care for their young. Stephen Clark, grounded in biological analysis and traditional ethics, probes ... see all copies from $19.90! new only from $37.95! \| SVS
8	Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China more books like this by Matthew Kohrman add to wishlist Bodies of Difference chronicles the compelling story of disability's emergence as an area of significant sociopolitical activity in contemporary China. Keenly attentive to how bodies are embedded in discourse, history, and personal exigency, Matthew Kohrman details ways that disability became a fount for the production of institutions and ... see all copies from $14.11! new only from $15.00! \| SVS
9	Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture more books like this by Sheldon H Lu add to wishlist This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sheldon Lu draws on Chinese literature, film, art, photography, and video to broadly map the emergence of modern China in relation to the capitalist world-system in the economic, social, ... see all copies from $18.68! new only from $29.22! \| SVS
10	Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience more books like this by Beatriz Da Costa (Editor), Kavita Philip (Editor), Joseph Dumit (Foreword by) add to wishlist Scientists, scholars, and artists consider the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences.Popular culture in this "biological century" seems to feed on proliferating fears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences at a time when such basic concepts as scientific truth, race and gender identity, and the human itself ... see all copies from $27.74! new only from $31.00!
11	Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences: Toward a Better Understanding of Human Nature more books like this by Steven A Peterson, PH.D., Albert Somit (Editor), A Peterson Steven a Peterson (Editor) add to wishlist "Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences" examines perhaps the single most important post-World War II development in the Behavioral Sciences - the emergence of a group of practitioners who advocate 'a more biologically oriented' approach to their discipline's subject matter. This contention directly challenges the basic tenets ... see all copies from $157.86! new only from $157.86! \| SVS
12 view cover	Darwinism, War and History: The Debate Over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War more books like this by Paul Crook, D P Crook add to wishlist While much has been written upon Social Darwinism, the historical impact of Darwinism upon theories of war and human aggression has been sadly neglected. This book is the first to study this discourse in depth. It challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of ... see all copies from $44.75! new only from $44.75! \| SVS
13 view cover	Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic': Governing Bodies more books like this by Wright Jan, Jan Wright (Editor), Valerie Harwood (Editor) add to wishlist "Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'" is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the 'obesity epidemic'. The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different individuals, social groups and institutions. ... see all copies from $104.29! new only from $104.29!
14 view cover	Genetic-based democracy : rising out of the dark age of egalitariat [sic] America more books like this by Mike Morra add to wishlist see all copies from $17.99! new only from $77.20!
15 view cover	Moral Panic more books like this by John Fekete add to wishlist see all copies from $2.33! new only from $279.83! \| first editions
16 view cover	Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life more books like this by Majia Holmer Nadesan add to wishlist "Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life" synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health, genomics, behavioral genetics, neoliberal ... see all copies from $112.88! new only from $112.88!
17	Biopolitics more books like this by Thomas Landon Thorson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Biology and Political Science more books like this by Samuel M Hines, Robert H Blank, Blank Robert add to wishlist Rapid advances in the life sciences, especially molecular biology and neuroscience, combined with research in ethnology and related areas are altering our understanding of human nature and behaviour. They also raise challenging social and political issues that necessitate a re-evaluation of existing social values and structures. However despite ... see all copies from $135.30! new only from $135.30!
19	Survival: A New Approach from the Life Sciences to the Major Problem of Our Time more books like this by Richard Van Praagh add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20 view cover	The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror: Living, Dying, Surviving more books like this by Elizabeth Dauphinee (Editor), Cristina Masters (Editor) add to wishlist The contributors explores the intellectual, cultural, and political logics of the US-led war on terror and its consequences on lived lives in a range of contexts. The book interrogates the ways in which biopolitical practices hinge on political imaginaries and materialities of violence and death. see all copies from $53.47! new only from $53.47! \| SVS
21 view cover	Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom more books like this by Paul H Rubin add to wishlist An examination of political behaviour from a modern evolutionary perspective. Paul H. Rubin discusses group or social behaviour, including: ethnic and racial conflict; altruism and co-operation; envy; political power; and the role of religion in politics. see all copies from $13.90! new only from $13.90! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Biopolitics: Search for a More Human Political Science more books like this by Thomas C Wiegele add to wishlist see all copies from $7.19! new only from $92.92!
23 view cover	Res Biopolitics V5 more books like this by Albert Somit (Editor), Steven A Peterson, PH.D. (Editor) add to wishlist The study of biology and politics examines the linkage between the life sciences (broadly defined) and politics. Among biological areas from which these linkages are drawn include: human ethology; socio-biology; ethology; genetics; evolutionary theory; neurosciences; biotechnology; and, bioethics amongst others. These knowledge arenas are used to ... see all copies from $107.63! new only from $107.63! \| SVS
24 view cover	Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development: Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century more books like this by David O'Kane add to wishlist see all copies from $39.95! new only from $67.95!
25 view cover	Res Biopolitics V 6 more books like this by Albert Somit, Stephen Peterson, Falger add to wishlist The study of biology and politics examines the linkage between the life sciences (broadly defined) and politics. Among biological areas from which these linkages are drawn include: human ethology; socio-biology; ethology; genetics; evolutionary theory; neurosciences; biotechnology; and, bioethics, amongst others. These knowledge arenas are used to ... see all copies from $107.63! new only from $107.63! \| SVS

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