Insuring Life

Name: Insuring Life
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Insuring LifeValue, Security and Risk\nAuthor(s): Luis Lobo-Guerrero\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138729285, 978-1138729285\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nInsuring Life offers a critical engagement with the epistemology of life insurance to demonstrate the unnecessary and]