One of the core issues in Michel Foucault’s and Georges Canguilhem’s works is the study of the epistemological status and political functioning of biological discourse, explored in its fully heterogeneous, plural, and conflictual character. Starting from the relations and tensions between their theoretical orientations, the present work attempts a critical re-reading of their researchs, with the aim of integrating and mobilizing their analysis in light of contemporary political and epistemological debates. In this respect, Canguilhem’s biological philosophy allows us to re-examine the foucauldian conceptions of history, society, subjectivity, technology, and environment; moreover, it enables a re-questioning about the spaces of intervention of biopolitical technologies from a socio-ecological and eco-historical perspective.
University of Florence, Italy
Book Title
Biopolitica ed ecologia
Book Subtitle
L'epistemologia politica del discorso biologico tra Michel Foucault e Georges Canguilhem
Authors
Andrea Angelini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
514
Publication Year
2021
Copyright Information
© 2021 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-384-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-383-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-384-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-385-7
Series Title
Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»
Series ISSN
2705-0289
Series E-ISSN
2705-0297