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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Coming to Terms with Biopolitics, Temporality and Historic Justice -- 2 Biopolitics and Modernity: Revisiting the Eugenics Project -- 3 Nazi Sterilization Policy, Second-Order Injustice and the Struggle for Reparations -- 4 Justice at Last: The Persecution of Homosexual Men and the Politics of Amends -- 5 Marginal Justice: Coming to Terms with the Persecution of the 'Asocials' -- 6 Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault on Biopolitics, Time and Totalitarianism -- 7 Increasing the Forces of Life: Biopolitics, Capitalism and Time in Marx and Foucault -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- References

Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. The author introduces the concept of "injuries of normality" to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for historic justice. She examines the processes of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the context of coercive sterilization, institutional killings, as well as the persecution of homosexual men and of "asocials" under Nazi rule. She argues that an analytic perspective on political temporality allows us to better understand the formation of these biopolitical human rights violations and their exclusion from memory and historic justice.

Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. Kathrin Braun introduces the concept of »injuries of normality« to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for historic justice. She examines the processes of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the context of coercive sterilization, institutional killings, as well as the persecution of homosexual men and of »asocials« under Nazi rule. She argues that an analytic perspective on political temporality allows us to better understand the formation of these biopolitical human rights violations and their exclusion from memory and historic justice.

The book critically examines how concepts such as self-determination, participation, ethics, or dialogue, developed not least by the feminist movement and directed against repression, heteronomy and professional paternalism, have been integrated into new contexts and transformed into new social technologies. Crossing a variety of fields from birthing, genetic counselling, living wills, hospital ethics, to population policies and politics of biomedicine, it shows that medicine and medicine-related policies and practices form crucial arenas of these transformations. What we see emerging is proce

Abgrenzung von der Frau und Aneignung des Weiblichen, bilden den Hintergrund für die erkenntniskritische Aufarbeitung Bacons und Descartes. "Jeder Versuch, der nicht die Naturhaftigkeit des Erkenntnissubjekts einerseits, sowie andererseits die Reduzierung der Frau auf Natur als geschichtlichen Prozeß begreift, schreibt den Dualismus von Geist/Mann und Natur/Frau fest, den es doch aufzulösen gilt." Es geht deshalb hier nicht um den vielbeschworenen Konflikt von männlich versus weiblich, männlichem Macht- und Erkenntnisdrang und weiblicher Naturnähe, sondern die Dialektik von innerer und äußerer Naturbeherrschung wird vor allem auch als Dialektik von patriarchaler Herrschaft und Ausbeutung weiblicher Arbeit begriffen. Der von Hans-Jürgen Krahl entfaltete Begriff der Liebe zum Identischen und die ideengeschichtliche Aufarbeitung der christlichen Askese, ein Bestreben nach jungfräulicher Reinheit und Abtötung des Fleisches, nach

Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. Kathrin Braun introduces the concept of »injuries of normality« to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for historic justice. She examines the processes of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the context of coercive sterilization, institutional killings, as well as the persecution of homosexual men and of »asocials« under Nazi rule. She argues that an analytic perspective on political temporality allows us to better understand the formation of these biopolitical human rights violations and their exclusion from memory and historic justice.

The article demonstrates that Hannah Arendt's examination of modern temporality strongly intersects with Michel Foucault's diagnosis of modern biopolitics. Both observe three key features of biopolitical modernity: the political zoefication of life, a technocratic understanding of politics, and processual temporality which link the project of modernity to the project of 20th-century totalitarianism. Arendt, however, also offers an alternative, nonbiopolitical understanding of politics, life, and time captured in the concept of natality. Built into the concept of natality is the 'weakly' messianic temporal structure of the interval as opposed to processual temporality.

The article demonstrates that Hannah Arendt's examination of modern temporality strongly intersects with Michel Foucault's diagnosis of modern biopolitics. Both observe three key features of biopolitical modernity: the political zoefication of life, a technocratic understanding of politics, and processual temporality which link the project of modernity to the project of 20th-century totalitarianism. Arendt, however, also offers an alternative, nonbiopolitical understanding of politics, life, and time captured in the concept of natality. Built into the concept of natality is the 'weakly' messianic temporal structure of the interval as opposed to processual temporality. © 2007, SAGE. All rights reserved.