Biopower: Foucault and Beyond

Authors

Vernon W. Cisney, Gettysburg CollegeFollow
Nicolae Morar, University of Oregon

Document Type

Book

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Description

Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, or destroying them.” With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of biopower has enabled while at the same time pinpointing their most important shared resonances. [From the publisher]

ISBN

9780226226620

Publication Date

12-2015

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

City

Chicago, IL

Department 1

Philosophy

Comments

The introduction to Professor Cisney's book can be read by using the download button above.

Copyright Note

This is the publisher's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

Recommended Citation

Cisney, Vernon W., and Nicolae Morar. Biopower: Foucault and Beyond. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Required Publisher's Statement

Original version is available from the publisher at: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo20133023.html