Biyopolitika

Biopolitics is a tool for thinking about topics as diverse as the war on terror after 9/11, the emergence of neo-liberalism, racist ideologies and genocidal policies, the management of environmental affairs, stem cell research, biomedical and biotechnological innovations such as human cloning and the human genome project. happened. Without exaggerating its role, it can be said that biopolitics serves as an interpretative key in many debates to analyze and criticize contemporary forms of power - connecting to questions of life and death, race and gender, body and nature, as well as to more traditional problems of power and domination. In fact, the intensity of the debate and the importance of biopolitics show that the term captures at the heart of some issues that are fundamental in our age.

Biopolitics is used so frequently and sometimes inappropriately that it is not even possible to understand what is meant and how accurately it is explained. While Thomas Lemke examines the analytical and critical potential of the concept and its starting points, he actually manages to resolve this ambiguity. It summarizes the history of the concept of biopolitics and explores its relationship with today's theoretical debates. This effort both puts the concept of biopolitics in the correct context and skilfully describes its contribution to sociology and philosophy in an eye-opening language.

A descriptive and eye-opening book about biopolitics...



Number of Pages: 176

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 176

First Printing Year: 2013

Language Turkish