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Sergei Prozorov challenges the assumption that the biopolitical governance means the end of democracy, arguing for a positive synthesis of biopolitics and democracy. By critically re-engaging with canonical theories of biopolitics from Foucault, Agamben and Esposito, and introducing Nancy, Badiou and Lefort to the discussion, he develops a vision of democratic biopolitics where diverse forms of life can coexist on the basis of their reciprocal recognition as free, equal and in common. He demonstrates how this vision can be realised and sustained by using examples of our lived experience.
Contents
Prologue: Towards an Experimental Analytics of GovernmentBiopolitics and the Eclipse of DemocracyAffirmative BiopoliticsA Note on MethodOutline of the Argument
Part 1: Rousseau and the Critique of Biopolitics
1. Rousseau's AporiaThe Divided DemosSubtraction: The Constitution of the SovereignEmanation: The Constitution of GovernmentPolitics: the Existence of the PeopleGovernment over KingdomIndividual as Universe
2. The Community of Solitary WalkersThe Free Subject of ReverieThe Universal and the SingularRousseau and Radical DemocracyRousseau's Ambivalent LegacyDemocracy as the Experience of the Generic
Part II: Freeform Life
3. Biopower and the Politics of ContingencyTowards a Democratic BiopoliticsBiopower in the VoidThe Scandal of ContingencyFreedom, Equality, Community
4. Is There a Democratic Form of Life?The Disappointments of the Faithful DemocratDemocracy of the IncommensurableDemocratic Mannerism
5. Demos DistractedBetween Captivation and BoredomThe Importance of Getting Carried AwayThe UnborablePhish
6. How to Enjoy Democracy Again (and Again)The Malaise of DemocracyThe Pleasure of FormationDemocratic Biopolitics in the Age of Post-Truth
Epilogue: Why Democracy is Good for Life
