From Machenschaft to Biopolitics: A Genealogical Critique of Biopower

被引：15

作者：

Sinnerbrink, Robert

机构：

来源：

CRITICAL HORIZONS | 2005年 / 6卷 / 01期

关键词：

Biopower; Biopolitics; Modernity; Heidegger; Foucault; Agamben;

D O I：

10.1163/156851605775009447

中图分类号：

C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

This paper develops a genealogical critique of the concepts of biopower and biopolitics in the work of Foucault and Agamben. It shows how Heidegger's reflections on Machenschaft or machination prefigure the concepts of biopower and biopolitics. It develops a critique of Foucault's account of biopolitics as a system of managing the biological life of populations culminating in neo-liberalism, and a critique of Agamben's presentation of biopolitics as the metaphysical foundation of Western political rationality. Foucault's ethical turn within biopolitical governmentality, along with Agamben's messianic gesture towards a utopian community to come, are questioned as political responses to biopower regimes.

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页码：239 / 265

页数：27