The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society by Miguel Vatter

The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society

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Miguel Vatter

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nonfiction philosophy politics challenging informative medium-paced
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This book takes up Foucault's hypothesis that liberal "civil society," far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower...

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