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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825112803321

Autore

Campbell Timothy C

Titolo

Improper life [[electronic resource] ] : technology and biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben / / Timothy C. Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4529-4669-8

0-8166-7843-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

Posthumanities ; ; 18

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Biopolitics

Death - Political aspects

Technology - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Portions ... appeared originally in Italian as Vita impropria"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: bios between thanatos and techn? -- Divisions of the proper: Heidegger, technology, and the biopolitical -- The dispositifs of thanatopolitics: improper writing and life -- Barely breathing: Sloterdijk's immunitary biopolitics -- Practicing bios: attention and play as techn?.

Sommario/riassunto

How biopolitics can get beyond its obsession with death