The book follows Insuring War as the third of a trilogy that analyses how concepts and practices of power, risk and security materialise in the form of insurance as a central instrument of governance in the liberal world.

Preface

1. Life insurance and the politics of vital uncertainty -introduction

2. The Problem: The technological transcendence of liberalism

3. Insuring the Life Excess

4. Capital Securitisation: an emerging order in the valuation of life

5. Uberrima Fides, trust and contracted life

6. Sex, insurance and the valuation of life

7. Life beyond insurance, life as the potential of becoming

8. An epistemology of life insurance

Luis Lobo-Guerrero is Professor of History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen. He is the author of Insuring Security: Bioopolitics, Security and Risk, and Insuring War: Sovereignty, Security and Risk.