Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474485784)

What makes post-truth politics so difficult to resist is its apparently democratic character that claims to challenge bureaucratic depoliticisation, the rule of experts and the disappearance of alternatives to the hegemonic policy. Sergei Prozorov refutes this interpretation, arguing that the post-truth ideology leads to the degradation of the public sphere that is essential to democratic governance. Rather than enable resistance to expertise-based biopolitical governmentalities, truth denialism dissolves the only framework where their contestation and transformation could take place. In contrast, Biopolitics after Truth argues for a positive role of truth-telling in the democratisation of biopolitical governance.

Author: Sergei Prozorov
ISBN-10: 1474485782
ISBN-13: 9781474485784
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2021
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

About the Author

Sergei Prozorov is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the author of books including The Biopolitics of Stalinism (2016) and Agamben and Politics (2014), also published by Edinburgh University Press. He has published over 30 articles in major international journals. His research interests include political philosophy, theories of democracy and totalitarianism, biopolitics and governance.