1st Edition
The Biopolitical Body of Capital From Labour Value to Labour Legislation
Introduction. 1. The Three Bodies of the Modern Worker 2. Mortal Body and Legal Body, Social Body and Proper Body 3. National Body, Species Body, Foreign Body. Conclusion: Rereading Marx from Foucault's Perspective. Afterword: A Battle on Seven Fronts
Biography
Jacques Bidet is former Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre, France, and founder of the journal Actuel Marx. Throughout his research since the 1980s, he has been developing a theory of modern society and history known as a “metastructural theory of modernity”, mainly inspired by Marx, in the light of Althusser and Habermas, Bourdieu and Foucault, Wallerstein and others.
Jacques Bidet offers us an original, rigorous, and highly contemporary approach to Capital. He shows how this book display a politics of life. What it is dealing with is life embodied in bodies that expend energy, work, and produce, but also associate and struggle politically. In his view, this is not so much about the state's management of the population's life, as in Foucault, but rather what could be called a biopolitics from below, that is, a politics that gives substance to the demands that arise within capitalism.
Ricardo Bernal, Professor at Universidad La Salle, Mexico, Director of Logos, Revista de Filosofia, Mexico
