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Biopolitics and Temporality in Arendt and Foucault

The article demonstrates that Hannah Arendt's examination of modern temporality strongly intersects with Michel Foucault's diagnosis of modern biopolitics. Both observe three key features of biopolitical modernity: the political zoefication of life, a technocratic understanding of politics, and processual temporality which link the project of modernity to the project of 20th-century totalitarianism. Arendt, however, also offers an alternative, nonbiopolitical understanding of politics, life, and time captured in the concept of natality. Built into the concept of natality is the ‘weakly’ messianic temporal structure of the interval as opposed to processual temporality.

Biopolitics and Temporality in Arendt and Foucault

Urheber*in: Braun, Kathrin

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Seite(n): 5-23
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Time & Society, 16(1)

Subject
Politikwissenschaft
Philosophie
Politikwissenschaft
Philosophie, Theologie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Braun, Kathrin
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2007

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URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-223383
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  • Braun, Kathrin

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  • 2007

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