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Introduction Chapter 1: Evental figures and questions of method
Critique between biology and philosophy
History, genealogy and historical criticism
Entangled regimes of knowledge Chapter 2: Ageing and the molecular way of life
Ageing, death and governance
The trouble with ageing
Biogerontology and biomedicine
New bio-political formations
Biosociality, biogerontology and the mortal organism
Genealogy and the catalogue of failure Chapter 3: The evolutionary biology of ageing and death
Weismann, Weismannism and evolutionary biology
Reading Weismann on ageing and death
Defining the phenomenon
Aligning knowledge and power
The reality of standards and conventions
From dead ends to founding figures Chapter 4: Molecularizing the biology of ageing and death
Revisiting the normal and the pathological
Setting a new programme for gerontology
The complexities of biological standardization
Cells, between viruses and cancer
Coordinating human lives and the life of the cell
The multiple meanings of the normal and the pathological
Ageing and the politics of anguish
Of molecules and organisms Chapter 5: Forging the future
Re-reading Weismann
Securing the population
The business of biogerontology
Governing the contemporary polity
Rethinking bio-political governance, rethinking the fate of the mortal organism Chapter 6: Life, death and philosophy
Foucault, Deleuze and philosophy
Heidegger, Foucault and the biology of death
Deleuze between Weismann and Bergson
The mortal organism and the body without organs
Weismann and the philosophy of biology
Weismann, biophilosophy and the philosophy of biology Chapter 7: The arts of living and dying
Between life and death
The art of life
Death, dying and the reproduction of bio-political order
Life, death and freedom Conclusion Index.