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0816674655 azw3 Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? If this is true, what can life-minded thinkers put forward as the merits of biopolitical reflection? These questions drive Improper Life, Timothy C. Campbells dexterous inquiry-as-intervention. Campbell argues that a crypto-thanatopolitics can be teased out of Heideggers critique of technology and that some of the leading scholars of biopoliticsincluding Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Peter Sloterdijkhave been substantively influenced by Heideggers thought, particularly his reading of proper and improper writing. In fact, Campbell shows how all of these philosophers have pointed toward a tragic, thanatopolitical destination as somehow an inevitable result of technology. But in Read more