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1 online resource |
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Interventions |
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Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; The book cover; 1. Introduction: Life insurance and the politics of vital uncertainty; Transcending insured life; An insurantial logic; Capable life vs potential life; Dwelling a liberal life; The thesis -- the transcendence of liberalism; Structure of the book and of the individual chapters; 2. The problem: The technological transcendence of liberalism; Thinking about the transcendence of liberalism; On historical epistemology; 3. Insuring the life excess; Code 46 and the rape of biopolitics |
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Capitalising fearValuing life as capital; The 'vital excess' and the resistance to life's valuation; The political economy of 'excessive' capability; Notes; 4. Capital securitisation: an emerging order in the valuation of life; The limits of insurability; The securitisation of life; Securitisation of excess mortality and vitality: Vita and Kortis; Modelling and the strategisation of time; The limits of insurability and the strategisation of time; Note; 5. Uberrima fides, trust and contracted life; Suspicion, insurability, and trust |
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The doctrine of uberrima fides and the bonds with social and political communityThe mis-selling of insurance policies in the UK; Trust as a signifier of orders of truth; Uberrima fides and the production of economies of trust; Notes; 6. Sex, insurance and the valuation of lives; The ECJ ruling and the insurers' 'right to underwrite'; Reflections on the politics of valuing lives; An emerging order in the valuation of life; 7. Life beyond insurance, life as the potential of becoming; Jungle life versus liberal life; Revealing life as the potential of becoming |
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Life insurance and the transcendence of liberal governance8. An epistemology of life insurance; Uncertainty and the operationalisation of a problematisation of fear; Capable life as an aging course; Capable life as capital; Capable life, moral economies and liberal political communities; Capable life as technological effect; Transcendence and life insurance as epistemology; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty. It takes life insurance as an empirical site from which to ask: what is the kind of governance created through insurance an instance of, and how does it contribute to the transcendence of liberalism? By making a distinction between capable life as object of insurance, and potential life as that which escapes its control, the book conducts a historical epistemological analysis of the problems of valuation, truth production, securitisation, classification, and gendering that constitute life insurance products and practices. Insuring Life offers a critical engagement with the epistemology of life insurance to demonstrate the unnecessary and precarious character of the conditions that make this instrument of liberal governance possible. It concludes that the transcendence of liberalism relies on the technological agency of these instruments and that its challenge begins by redefining the terms under which the potential of life, if invaluable, is to be thought as event. The book follows Insuring War as the third of a trilogy that analyses how concepts and practices of power, risk and security materialise in the form of insurance as a central instrument of governance in the liberal world. It will be of great use to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students of political economy, critical security studies and political theory, the biopolitics of security and post-structural politics. Insuring War: https://www.routledge.com/products/search?keywords=insuring+war Insuring Security: https://www.routledge.com/Insuring-Security-Biopolitics-securit y-and-risk/Lobo-Guerrero/p/book/9780415522854 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Life insurance.
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Risk (Insurance)
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Value.
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value (economic concept)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Risk Assessment & Management.
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Life insurance
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Risk (Insurance)
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Value
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134743919 |
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1134743912 |
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