The Living from the Dead
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The Living from the Dead by Stuart J Murray
Presents a rhetorical critique of contemporary neoliberal biopolitics through a series of transdisciplinary case studies.“A meticulously conceptualized and eloquently argued ethico-rhetorical critique of neoliberal modernity and an impassioned disaffirmation of its biopolitical rationalityMurray excuses no one, least of all himself, from complicity in the necessarily lethal but disavowed infrastructural conditions and social norms of our economic and political present. Making live and letting die: A necessarily twinned, fateful, but cunningly intransitive symmetry. This is a book not just to be read and then read again, but also to be thought about for a very long time.”
—Barbara A. Biesecker, author of Addressing Postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change
“Stuart Murray is a beautiful writer and a meticulous thinker. Each of the case studies in this pathbreaking book offers a moving close-up designed to challenge biopolitics from the inside, mounting a defense against its ontologizing of life by homing in on the death that it necessitates. Murray invites the dead and dying to haunt the logics and spaces of biopolitical life and (so) exposes ‘our’ complicity in a regime that delivers death in the name of life.”
—Diane Davis, author of Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations
“Murray’s account of biopolitics in an age of neoliberalism is timely, lucid, and original. Rather than attending to the management of populations and the production of norms of life, Murray poses the urgent and necessary question of the deaths that make life and its affirmation possible. Arguing for a political paradigm shift in the norms and demands of life, Murray focuses on the loss, death, and silence that makes contemporary biopolitics possible. This is a remarkable and valuable book.”
—Claire Mary Colebrook, author of Deleuze and the Meaning of Life
Stuart J. Murray is Professor of Rhetoric and Ethics in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He holds affiliate appointments in the Department of Health Sciences and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271093406 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271093404 |
| Title | The Living from the Dead |
| Author | Stuart J Murray |
| Series | Rsa Series In Transdisciplinary Rhetoric |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2022-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 218 |
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