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Biopolitics and Temporality in Arendt and Foucault
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Abstract 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 proc... view more
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.... view less
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Political Science
Free Keywords
Arendt; biopolitics; Foucault; messianic time; modernity; natality; temporality;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 5-23
Journal
Time & Society, 16 (2007) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X07074099
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)