What is the role played by the persistence of death within a politics of life? In a critical reconstruction and expansion of the concepts and theses of Giorgio Agamben, Elena Esposito, and also of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, the Italian sociologist Ruggiero Gorgoglione uncovers the central paradoxes of biopolitics. Using the example of the biopolitical apparatus, this volume illustrates how philosophy and social theory in Italy can make a fundamental contribution to the solution of urgent political problems.
