Description: A compilation of the primary texts--by Foucault, Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, and other theorists--that laid the ground for contemporary thinking about biopolitics, or the relations between life and politics.
Review Quotes: "[A]n essential resource for graduate students and those new to the topic of biopolitics as well as a useful tool for the few with specialist knowledge."--Diana Stypinska, Sociological Review
"This is an indispensable collection, both for how it exposes the limits of Foucault's thought and for the ways it illuminates the dark junctures of life and the sciences of Aristotle's 'master art' politics."--David W. Swain, Kritikon Litterarum "Biopolitics: A Reader provides a comprehensive overview of this diverse and multidisciplinary field. Editors Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze demonstrate that biopolitics is not merely an academic fad, but rather, that it marks 'the intersection, or perhaps reciprocal incorporation, of life and politics.'"--Jay Daniel Thompson, Somatechnics "[A] comprehensive resource for newcomers, as well as those already familiar with biopolitics."--Rosalind G. Williams, Political Studies Review