Biopolitics And Ancient Thought
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Biopolitics And Ancient Thought
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Author : Jussi Backman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-31
Biopolitics And Ancient Thought written by Jussi Backman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-31 with Philosophy categories.
The volume studies, from different perspectives, the relationship between ancient thought and biopolitics, that is, theories, discourses, and practices in which the biological life of human populations becomes the focal point of political government. It thus continues and deepens the critical examination, in recent literature, of Michel Foucault's claim concerning the essentially modern character of biopolitics. The nine contributions comprised in the volume explore and utilize the notions of biopolitics and biopower as conceptual tools for articulating the differences and continuities between antiquity and modernity and for narrating Western intellectual and political history in general. Without committing itself to any particular thesis or approach, the volume evaluates both the relevance of ancient thought for the concept and theory of biopolitics and the relevance of biopolitical theory and ideas for the study of ancient thought. The volume is divided into three main parts: part I studies instances of biopolitics in ancient thought; part II focuses on aspects of ancient thought that elude or transcend biopolitics; and part III discusses several modern interpretations of ancient thought in the context of biopolitical theory.
On The Greek Origins Of Biopolitics
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Author : Mika Ojakangas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-28
On The Greek Origins Of Biopolitics written by Mika Ojakangas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Political Science categories.
This book explores the origins of western biopolitics in ancient Greek political thought. Ojakangas’s argues that the conception of politics as the regulation of the quantity and quality of population in the name of the security and happiness of the state and its inhabitants is as old as the western political thought itself: the politico-philosophical categories of classical thought, particularly those of Plato and Aristotle, were already biopolitical categories. In their books on politics, Plato and Aristotle do not only deal with all the central topics of biopolitics from the political point of view, but for them these topics are the very keystone of politics and the art of government. Yet although the Western understanding of politics was already biopolitical in classical Greece, the book does not argue that the history of biopolitics would constitute a continuum from antiquity to the twentieth century. Instead Ojakangas argues that the birth of Christianity entailed a crisis of the classical biopolitical rationality, as the majority of classical biopolitical themes concerning the government of men and populations faded away or were outright rejected. It was not until the renaissance of the classical culture and literature – including the translation of Plato’s and Aristotles political works into Latin – that biopolitics became topical again in the West. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students in the field of social and political studies, social and political theory, moral and political philosophy, IR theory, intellectual history, classical studies.
On The Greek Origins Of Biopolitics
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Author : Mika Ojakangas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-28
On The Greek Origins Of Biopolitics written by Mika Ojakangas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Political Science categories.
This book explores the origins of western biopolitics in ancient Greek political thought. Ojakangas’s argues that the conception of politics as the regulation of the quantity and quality of population in the name of the security and happiness of the state and its inhabitants is as old as the western political thought itself: the politico-philosophical categories of classical thought, particularly those of Plato and Aristotle, were already biopolitical categories. In their books on politics, Plato and Aristotle do not only deal with all the central topics of biopolitics from the political point of view, but for them these topics are the very keystone of politics and the art of government. Yet although the Western understanding of politics was already biopolitical in classical Greece, the book does not argue that the history of biopolitics would constitute a continuum from antiquity to the twentieth century. Instead Ojakangas argues that the birth of Christianity entailed a crisis of the classical biopolitical rationality, as the majority of classical biopolitical themes concerning the government of men and populations faded away or were outright rejected. It was not until the renaissance of the classical culture and literature – including the translation of Plato’s and Aristotles political works into Latin – that biopolitics became topical again in the West. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students in the field of social and political studies, social and political theory, moral and political philosophy, IR theory, intellectual history, classical studies.
Contemporary Encounters With Ancient Practice
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Author : Abraham Jacob Greenstine
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2024-12-31
Contemporary Encounters With Ancient Practice written by Abraham Jacob Greenstine and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This volume collects written and visual works that engage with opportunities of ancient practice from within the continental tradition. More than surveying ancient ethical or political ideas, the chapters develop divergent yet resonant approaches to concrete ways of living, acting, reflecting, and being with others found in antiquity and its reception. The practices involve the habits, exercises, activities, philosophies, and lives of today's readers; and so most chapters encourage the reader to do something, to put the ideas into practice. Withstanding a temptation to simply theorize practice, it insists on the embodied and shared materiality of living in singular times and places. The practical encounters between this book and its readers range across antiquity and the contemporary world, from political theatre, casuistry, and slavery to book production, friendship, and our own mortality. Through thinker-practitioner collaborations, occasional pieces, exhortations to readers, and recipes for action, this work strives to articulate and cultivate old and new practices for our lives.
Jean Bodin And Biopolitics Before The Biopolitical Era
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Author : Samuel Lindholm
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-05
Jean Bodin And Biopolitics Before The Biopolitical Era written by Samuel Lindholm and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Political Science categories.
This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of biopolitics and the connection between this and the technology of sovereign power, which disregards or eliminates life. By analyzing Jean Bodin’s political thought, which acts as a prime example of early modern biopolitics and proves that the two technologies can coexist while maintaining their conceptual distinction, the author combines Foucauldian genealogy with political theory and intellectual history to argue that Michel Foucault is mistaken in presuming that biopolitics is an explicitly modern occurrence. The book examines Bodin’s work on areas such as populationism; censors; climates, humors, and temperaments; and witch hunts. This pioneering book is the first English-language volume to focus on the biopolitical aspects of Bodin’s work, with a Foucauldian reading of his political thought. It will appeal to students and scholars of political theory, sovereignty, and governance.
Improper Life
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Author : Timothy C. Campbell
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2011-10-28
Improper Life written by Timothy C. Campbell and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-28 with Philosophy categories.
How biopolitics can get beyond its obsession with death
The Routledge Handbook Of Biopolitics
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Author : Sergei Prozorov
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-08-05
The Routledge Handbook Of Biopolitics written by Sergei Prozorov and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-05 with Political Science categories.
The problematic of biopolitics has become increasingly important in the social sciences. Inaugurated by Michel Foucault’s genealogical research on the governance of sexuality, crime and mental illness in modern Europe, the research on biopolitics has developed into a broader interdisciplinary orientation, addressing the rationalities of power over living beings in diverse spatial and temporal contexts. The development of the research on biopolitics in recent years has been characterized by two tendencies: the increasingly sophisticated theoretical engagement with the idea of power over and the government of life that both elaborated and challenged the Foucauldian canon (e.g. the work of Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, Roberto Esposito and Paolo Virno) and the detailed and empirically rich investigation of the concrete aspects of the government of life in contemporary societies. Unfortunately, the two tendencies have often developed in isolation from each other, resulting in the presence of at least two debates on biopolitics: the historico-philosophical and the empirical one. This Handbook brings these two debates together, combining theoretical sophistication and empirical rigour. The volume is divided into five sections. While the first two deal with the history of the concept and contemporary theoretical debates on it, the remaining three comprise the prime sites of contemporary interdisciplinary research on biopolitics: economy, security and technology. Featuring previously unpublished articles by the leading scholars in the field, this wide-ranging and accessible companion will both serve as an introduction to the diverse research on biopolitics for undergraduate students and appeal to more advanced audiences interested in the current state of the art in biopolitics studies.
Debating Biopolitics
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Author : Piasentier, Marco
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2022-08-05
Debating Biopolitics written by Piasentier, Marco and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-05 with Political Science categories.
Emerging out of the theoretical and practical urge to reflect on key contemporary debates arising in biopolitical scholarship, this timely book launches an in-depth investigation into the concept and history of biopolitics. In light of tumultuous political dynamics across the globe and new developments in this continually evolving field, the book reconsiders and expands upon Michel Foucault’s input to biopolitical studies.
Revolutionary Bio Politics From Fedorov To Mao
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Author : Jeff Love
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-29
Revolutionary Bio Politics From Fedorov To Mao written by Jeff Love and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-29 with Political Science categories.
This book confronts the question of immortality: Is human life without immortality tolerable? It does so by exploring three attitudes to immortality expressed in the context of three revolutions, the Soviet, the Nazi and the Communist revolution in China. The book begins with an account of the radical Russian tradition of immortalism that culminates in the thought of Nikolai Fedorov (1829-1903), then contrasting this account with the equally radical finitism of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). Both these strands are then developed in the context of modern Chinese philosophical thinking about technology and the creation of a harmonious relation to nature that reflects in turn a harmonious relation to mortality, one that eschews the radicality of both Fedorov and Heidegger by discerning a “middle way.”
Morality On The Edge
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Author : Jolanta Saldukaitytė, Luc Anckaert
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
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Morality On The Edge written by Jolanta Saldukaitytė, Luc Anckaert and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
This volume couples and examines Modernity and the Holocaust in Lithuania through the lens of Western moral philosophy, especially the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas. The Holocaust appears not as an abstract event but as a real situation involving real choices, real actions, of real people. In rethinking moral problems and dilemmas, the volume draws on various diaries written in the Vilnius and Kaunas ghettos as historical testimonies. These sources reveal in all their concretude the fragility of human freedom, the difficulty of ethical choice, and the vulnerability of human beings. Contributing authors also seek to understand the responsibility of philosophy itself – how it is tested and what it has to say when confronted with violence and evil. At the far edge of extremity, the Holocaust surely tests the limits of our concepts, our language, and our theoretical and practical paradigms. The evil of the Holocaust, after all, is not a theoretical or hypothetical question but rather concerns the concrete death of millions of people. No doubt the Holocaust is a tragedy suffered by the Jewish people, but it is as well a traumatic event for all humanity – it is our issue.