Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction (Biopolitics, 5)

"[This book] advances an analytics of 'biopolitics' as a 'prospective' methodological approach, offering a number of valuable and provocative questions to guide future research."-Foucault Studies "Lemke (Goethe Univ., Germany) offers an overview of biopolitics and an account of its relevance in theoretical debate... Recommended."-Choice "Thomas Lemke's Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction is required reading for anyone interested in this concept."-Carlos Novas,New Genetics and Society "What Lemke's final chapter makes plain, and what can thus be read back into the book on the whole...is that biopolitics is a coherent field of inquiry for future work in anthropology, sociology, science studies, and of course history and philosophy, and that it is such precisely because it is a field of inquiry, namely an arena for rigorous investigation and severe thought... This is a crucial task. Lemke is to be applauded for showing both its coherence and its needfulness."-Theory & Event