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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.
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