[...] This is why, to return to Esposito, Nazi bio-thanatopolitics and the personalist biopolitics of liberal individualism are the mere reversal of one another; both remain bound to the same imperative: “to manage life productively: in the first case, to benefit the racial body of the chosen people; and in the second, to benefit the body of the individual subject who becomes its master.” (E3 91) If the metaphysics and biologization of life, personalism and Nazism, sovereignty and biopower all come down to the same logic, how is anything like an affirmative biopolitics possible or desirable?
PDF of a thesis: https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/981834/1/Lynes_PhD_F2016.pdf
