Enlightenment biopolitics : a history of race, eugenics, and the making of citizens
Introduction. Becoming Biopolitics -- Chapter One. Organizing the Swarm of Being -- Chapter Two. Enlightenment Eugenics -- Chapter Three. Making Men in the Colonies -- Chapter Four. In Society, but Not of It -- Chapter Five. New Citizens, New Slaves -- Chapter Six. Making the New Man -- Chapter Seve...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago London : University of Chicago Press,
2024
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | The Life of Ideas
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| Schlagworte: | Biopolitics Eugenics Enlightenment Aufklärung Biopolitik |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Introduction. Becoming Biopolitics -- Chapter One. Organizing the Swarm of Being -- Chapter Two. Enlightenment Eugenics -- Chapter Three. Making Men in the Colonies -- Chapter Four. In Society, but Not of It -- Chapter Five. New Citizens, New Slaves -- Chapter Six. Making the New Man -- Chapter Seven. An Evolving Constellation -- Conclusion "In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and circulated. He locates that context in the Enlightenment, when emancipatory ideals sat alongside the horrors of colonialism, slavery, and race-based discrimination. These did not just coexist, Nelson argues; they were actually mutually constitutive of Enlightenment ideals. Nelson focuses on Enlightenment-era visions of eugenics (including proposals to establish programs of selective breeding), forms of penal slavery, and spurious biological arguments about the supposed inferiority of particular groups. The Enlightenment, he shows, was marked by a proliferation of discourses on shaping, harnessing, and "organizing" the minds and especially the bodies of citizens. In his reading of the birth of biopolitics and its transformations over time, Nelson examines the often shocking conceptual and practical connections between inclusion and exclusion, equality and inequality, rights and race, the supposed "improvement of the human species" and practices of dehumanization"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780226825571 0226825574 9780226825588 0226825582 9780226825564 0226825566 |