The Republic of the LivingThis book takes up Foucaults hypothesis that liberal civil society, far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower. In order to test this hypothesis, its chapters examine the critical theory of civil societyfrom Hegel and Marx through Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, and Arendtfrom the new horizon opened up by Foucaults turn to