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Contemporary studies of biopolitics assume that the rise of biopolitical governance entails the eclipse of democracy. The abstract egalitarianism of democratic government appears to be incompatible with the concrete, particularist and individualising operations of biopower. Sergei Prozorov challenges the assumption that the biopolitical governance means the end of democracy, arguing for a positive synthesis of biopolitics and democracy. He develops a vision of democratic biopolitics where diverse forms of life can coexist on the basis of their reciprocal recognition as free, equal and in common. He demonstrates how this vision can be realised and sustained by using examples of our lived experience --

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- 1 Postcommunist Stalinism: The Resurrection of the Effective Manager -- 2 Stalinism in the Theory of Biopolitics: A Brief Genealogy of a Reticence -- 3 The Great Break: Making Socialism Real -- 4 High Stalinism: Retreat, Simulacrum, Terror -- 5 Deathly Life: The Subject of Stalinism -- 6 Shalamov, or the Negative Experience -- 7 A Real Renewal of Life: Towards an Affi rmative Biopolitics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Biopolitics in the Political Thought of Classical Greece / Mika Ojakangas -- "The Government of a Multitude" : Hobbes on Political Subjectification / Marco Piasentier and Davide Tarizzo -- Nietzsche and Biopolitics : Four Readings of Nietzsche as a Biopolitical Thinker / Vanessa Lemm -- Biopolitics Before Foucault : On Benjamin's Critique of Bare Life and Agamben's Theological Genealogy of the "Apparatus" / Bostjan Nedoh -- Foucault, Biopolitics and Aesthetics / Lauri Siisiäinen -- Biopolitics and Socialism : Foucault, Agamben, Esposito / Sergei Prozorov -- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri on "Postmodern Biopolitics" / Thomas Lemke -- Community, Life and Subjectivity in Italian Biopolitics / Miguel Vatter -- Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben and the "Nomos" of Contemporary Political Life / Nick Vaughan-Williams -- Gender Equality as Bioeconomic Governmentality in a Neoliberal EU / Jemima Repo -- Nature Saved : From the Katechontic to the Eschatological in Contemporary Liberal Biopolitics / Simona Rentea -- Cognitive Capitalism and the Governance of the Prefrontal Cortex / Warren Neidich -- Bodies, Populations, Citizens : The Biopolitics of African Environmentalism / Carl Death -- The Biopolitics of European Border Security / Nick Vaughan-Williams -- Biopolitics of the Global Governance of HIV/AIDS / Jaakko Ailio -- The Biopolitics of Asylum Law in the United States / Ariadna Estévez -- Beyond Biopolitics : Struggles over Nature / Lara Montesinos Coleman and Doerthe Rosenow -- Biopolitics and Human Reproduction / Catherine Mills -- Human Life Between Biology and Law in Germany / Ingrid Metzler -- Genopolitics : Behavioural Genetics and the End of Politics / Martin G. Weiss -- Conclusion : Whither Biopolitics? / Sergei Prozorov

Resulting from an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, political science and International Relations about Europe as a political community this volume rethinks the European political project beyond the rigid opposition between universalism and particularism approaching Europe as a space of the exposure of differences to each other. Matthias Flatscher, University of Vienna, Austria Rodolphe Gasché, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Ari Hirvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Timo Miettinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Jayne Svenungsson, Uppsala University, Sweden