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1	The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College De France, 1978-79 more books like this by Michel Foucault, Michel Senellart (Editor), Francois Ewald (Editor) add to wishlist this liberal governmentality. This involves describing the political rationality within which the specific problems of life and population were posed: "Studying liberalism as the general framework of biopolitics." What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they were outlined in the Eighteenth century? What crisis of ... see all copies from $16.37! new only from $16.37! \| SVS
2	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 $45.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	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 $7.99! new only from $9.17! \| first editions \| SVS
4	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 $17.25! new only from $31.14! \| SVS
5	Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics more books like this by Susan Greenhalgh, Edwin A Winckler add to wishlist China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have occurred in China's population: one of the fastest fertility declines in modern history and a gender gap among infants that is the highest in the world. These ... see all copies from $17.04! new only from $26.73! \| SVS
6	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 $14.35! new only from $23.95! \| SVS
7	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 $22.35! new only from $35.02!
8	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! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Biopolitics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology more books like this by Vandana Shiva (Editor), Ingunn Moser (Editor) add to wishlist While the commercial and scientific publicity around biotechnology has stressed the potential gains, scientists, thinkers and activists have been warning of the grave risks and difficult ethical issues at stake. This reader assembles critiques of biotechnology. The contributors explore the hidden implications and likely consequences of defining ... see all copies from $5.97! new only from $20.28! \| SVS
10	Christian biopolitics; a credo & strategy for the future more books like this by Wilfred Kenneth Cauthen add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.00! \| first editions
11	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 $24.50! new only from $32.77!
12	Moral Panic more books like this by John Fekete add to wishlist see all copies from $18.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
13 view cover	Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic': Governing Bodies more books like this by Wright Jan 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 $90.59! new only from $90.59!
14 view cover	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 $13.00! new only from $31.00! \| SVS
15 view cover	Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject more books like this by Lorna Weir add to wishlist Traditionally, EuroAmerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary EuroAmerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book, Lorna Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living ... see all copies from $44.09! new only from $44.93! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter more books like this by Mark Nichter add to wishlist In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the worldas leading medical anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science research has contributed to international health and elucidates what social science research can contribute to global health and the study of biopolitics in the future. Nichter focuses ... see all copies from $19.77! new only from $34.65! \| SVS
17 view cover	Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture more books like this by Sven-Olov Wallenstein add to wishlist This volume investigates the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Wallenstein draws especially on the late work of Michel Foucault for his argument and ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $16.63! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Biological Ideas in Politics: An Essay on Political Adaptivity more books like this by W J M MacKenzie add to wishlist see all copies from $3.73!
19 view cover	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 $25.95! new only from $25.95! \| SVS
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 $62.96! new only from $62.96! \| SVS
21 view cover	The Biopolitics of the War on Terror: Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies more books like this by Julian Reid add to wishlist The war against terror is widely represented as a conflict in which societies tasked with achieving security for human life are imperilled by an enemy dedicated to destroying the conditions for the flourishing of human life. The enemy is not simply one that is motivated against the interests of common humanity, but an enemy which, in being so ... see all copies from $49.65! new only from $79.95! \| SVS
22	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
23	Biopolitics more books like this by Thomas Landon Thorson add to wishlist see all copies from $4.90! first editions
24 view cover	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 $138.88! new only from $138.88! \| SVS
25 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 $16.23! new only from $21.97! \| SVS

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