Timothy C Campbell: 4 books
Improper Life
Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? If this is true, what can life-minded thinkers put forward as the merits of biopolitical reflection?...
The Techne of Giving
Cinema and the Generous Form of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Over the last five years, corporations and individuals have given more money, more often, to charitable organizations than ever before. What could possibly be the downside to inhabiting a golden age of gift-giving? That question lies at the heart of Timothy Campbell’s account of contemporary giving...
Systems of Life
Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century
Southeastern Grasslands
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data
Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it...