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On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics - A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower (Paperback)
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On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics - A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower (Paperback)
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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.
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