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Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? If this is true, what can life-minded thinkers put forward as the merits of biopolitical reflection? These questions drive Improper Life, Timothy C. Campbell's dexterous inquiry-as-intervention. Campbell argues that a "crypto-thanatopolitics" can be teased out of Heidegger's critique of technology and that some of the leading scholars of biopolitics-including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, a

Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? If this is true, what can life-minded thinkers put forward as the merits of biopolitical reflection? These questions drive Improper Life, Timothy C. Campbell's dexterous inquiry-as-intervention. Campbell argues that a "crypto-thanatopolitics" can be teased out of Heidegger's critique of technology and that some of the leading scholars of biopolitics-including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, a

Diano's Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy, anticipating the work of Deleuze, Badiou, Esposito, and Agamben. It now appears in English for the first time, with a substantial Introduction that situates the book in the genealogy of modern political philosophy

Cover -- Systems of Life -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics -- 1. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eighteenth Century -- 2. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence -- 3. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity -- 4. System and Subject in Adam Smith's Political Economy: Nature, Vitalism, and Bioeconomic Life -- 5. Vitalism's Revolution: John Thelwall, Life, and the Economy of Radical Politics -- 6. Writing Generation: Revolutionary Bodies and the Poetics of Political Economy -- 7. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny -- 8. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Present Moment -- 9. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin's Entangled Bank -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index