| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 215 pages) |
| Series |
Classics in theory |
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Classics in theory.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Biopolitics and Ancient Thought -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations of Classical Works -- Introduction -- References -- PART I: BIOPOLITICS IN ANCIENT THOUGHT -- 1: Biopolitics and the "Boundless People": An Iliadic Model -- 1. Population, Animality, and the People -- 2. Swarms, Flocks, Herds -- 3. One or Several Tongues? -- 4. Multitudes, Peoples, Masses -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 2: Plato and the Biopolitical Purge of the City-State -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Health as the Paradigm of Justice -- 3. Democratic Anomaly |
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4. Disease of Injustice -- 5. Political Therapy -- 6. Curative Penalty -- 7. The Incurable -- 8. State Purge -- 9. By Way of Conclusion: Tyranny -- References -- 3: Sovereign Power and Social Justice: Plato and Aristotle on Justice and Its Biopolitical Basis in Heterosexual Copulation, Procreation, and Upbringing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Plato and Aristotle -- 3. Plato on the First Laws of Social Justice and Aristotle's Response -- 4. The Peripatetics on Ravaging Rape -- 5. Barriers to Justice in Procreation and Upbringing -- 6. Conclusion -- References |
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PART II: ANCIENT THOUGHT BEYOND BIOPOLITICS -- 4: Otherwise than (Bio)politics: Nature and the Sacred in Tragic Life -- 1. Politics as Denaturalization -- 2. Ion and Oedipus: Paternity, City-Founding, and the Sovereign as Homo Sacer -- 3. Ancients and Moderns: Tragedy and Assujettissement -- References -- 5: Beyond Biopolitics and Juridico-Institutional Politics: Aristotle on the Nature of Politics -- 1. Arguments for Aristotle's Politics as Biopolitical -- 1.1 Biopolitics as Focus on Population -- 1.2 Biopolitics Views Naturalness as Biological -- 1.3 Biopolitics as Focus on the Economic |
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1.4 Biopolitics as Focus on Social Norms -- 2. Nature beyond Biology -- 2.1 Unity of Body and Soul -- 2.2 The Unity of the Nutritive, Sensitive, and Thinking Parts of the Soul -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- 6: Bene vivere politice: On the (Meta)biopolitics of "Happiness" -- 1. Introduction: Foucault, Ojakangas, and the Biopolitics of Antiquity -- 2. Aristotle and Aquinas: The Transcendence of the Blessed Life -- 3. Hobbes and Modernity: The Life-Immanence of Happiness -- 4. Arendt on Life as the Greatest Good and the Possibility of Public Happiness -- References |
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PART III: BIOPOLITICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF ANCIENT THOUGHT -- 7: Hannah Arendt's Genealogy of Biopolitics: From Greek Materialism to Modern Human Superfluity -- 1. Introduction: Arendt's Presumed Devaluation of Biological Life -- 2. The Birth of Materialism and the Prefiguration of Sovereignty in Plato and Aristotle -- 3. Transcendent Materialism: Christianity and the Sanctification of Life -- 4. Conclusion: The Birth of Species-Life and Human Superfluity -- References -- 8: From Biopolitics to Biopoetics and Back Again: On a Counterintuitive Continuity in Foucault's Thought -- 1. Introduction |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed January 25, 2023) |
| Subject |
Biopolitics -- Philosophy
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Philosophy, Ancient -- Political aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Backman, Jussi, 1977- editor.
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Cimino, Antonio, 1979- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192662736 |
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0192662732 |
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9780191939518 |
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019193951X |
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