Biopolitics and ancient thought / edited by Jussi Backman and Antonio Cimino.
This 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.
| Uniform Title: | Classics in theory.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Classics in theory.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 215 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction / Jussi Backman and Antonio Cimino
- Part I. Biopolitics in ancient thought
- 1. Biopolitics and the "boundless people" : an Iliadic model / Sara Brill
- 2. Plato and the biopolitical purge of the city-state / Mika Ojakangas
- 3. Sovereign power and social justice : Plato and Aristotle on justice and its biopolitical basis in heterosexual copulation, procreation, and upbringing / Kathy L. Gaca
- Part II. Ancient thought beyond biopolitics
- 4. Otherwise than (bio)politics : nature and the sacred in tragic life / Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
- 5. Beyond biopolitics and juridico-institutional politics : Aristotle on the nature of politics / Adriel M. Trott
- 6. Bene vivere politice : on the (meta)biopolitics of "happiness" / Jussi Backman
- Part III. Biopolitical interpretation of ancient thought
- 7. Hannah Arendt's genealogy of biopolitics : from Greek materialism to modern human superfluity / Villi Suuronen
- 8. From biopolitics to biopoetics and back again : on a counterintuitive continuity in Foucault's thought / Sergei Prozorov
- 9. Agamben's Aristotelian biopolitics : conceptual and methodological problems / Antonio Cimino.