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biopolitics
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Catherine Malabou
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Giorgio Agamben
governance
Michel Foucault
Michel Henry
political violence
Quentin Meillassoux
Roberto Esposito
socialism
Stalinism
Product details
- ISBN 9781474410526
- Weight: 411g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2016
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Western theories of biopolitics focus on its liberal and fascist rationalities. In opposition to this, Stalinism is oriented more towards transforming life in accordance with the communist ideal, and less towards protecting it. Sergei Prozorov reconstructs this rationality in the early Stalinist project of the Great Break (1928–32) and its subsequent modifications during High Stalinism. He then relocates the question of biopolitics down to the level of the subject, tracing the way the ‘new Soviet person’ was to be produced in governmental practices and the role that violence and terror would play in this construction. Throughout, he engages with the canonical theories of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito, and the ‘new materialist’ theories of Michel Henry, Quentin Meillassoux and Catherine Malabou to critique the conventional approaches to biopolitics
Sergei Prozorov is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the author of books including The Biopolitics of Stalinism (2016) and Agamben and Politics (2014), also published by Edinburgh University Press. He has published over 30 articles in major international journals. His research interests include political philosophy, theories of democracy and totalitarianism, biopolitics and governance.
