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On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower
By Mika Ojakangas
Copyright 2016
176 Pages
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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,... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Foucault on Biopolitics
3. Aristotle’s Biopolitics of Population
4. Plato’s Biopolitical State Racism 1: The Republic
5. Plato’s Biopolitical State Racism 2: The Laws
6. Platonic-Aristotelian Biopolitical Justice
7. Decline of Biopolitics in Late Antiquity
8. Rebirth of Biopolitics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
9. Conclusion
Biography
Mika Ojakangas is Professor of Political Thought, Rhetoric and Culture in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
