Immunity and Biosecurity: Reading the Pandemic as a Mutual Relation Between Protection and Obedience

Biopolitics occupies a central role in contemporary debates over new political and governance strategies around the world. Based on the Hobbesian assumption of a “mutual relation between protection and obedience” the sovereign power of modern states seems to be founded with the purpose of the preser...

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Main Author: Esposito, Bianca Maria (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2023
In: Political theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 367-383
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Foucault, Michel 1926-1984 / Agamben, Giorgio 1942- / Esposito, Roberto 1950- / Mbembe, Achille 1957- / Biopolitics / COVID-19 (Disease) / Pandemic
RelBib Classification:TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Sovereignty
B state of exception
B biosecurity
B Pandemic
B Biopolitics
B Immunity
B necropolitics
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