The Human Difference: Beyond Nomotropism

The main theme of this essay is f i n i t e l i f e, which is the bedrock of modern biopolitics. In the series of lectures devoted to the ‘birth of biopolitics,’ Michel Foucault defines it as a new system of ‘governing the living’ based on the natural cycle of birth and death, and the law of genes...

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Main Author: Agata Bielik-Robson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Warsaw 2017-09-01
Series:Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
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Online Access:http://eidos.uw.edu.pl/human-difference/