Biopolitics and Ancient Thought
by Backman, Jussi; Cimino, AntonioFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2022-07-12
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Jussi Backman, Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä,Antonio Cimino, Assistant Professor, Center for the History of Philosophy and Science,, Radboud University
Jussi Backman is an Academy of Finland research fellow in philosophy at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä (Finland). He completed a Diplôme d'études approfondies at the Université de Nice (France) in 2003 and a PhD in philosophy at the University of Helsinki
(Finland) in 2010. His main fields of expertise are contemporary continental thought (phenomenology, hermeneutics, poststructuralism, recent French materialism), especially political theory and conceptual history, as well as ancient philosophy.
Antonio Cimino is Assistant Professor in history of philosophy at the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). He obtained a PhD in philosophy from the University of Pisa (Italy). His main fields of research are the history of contemporary
European thought and the reception of ancient philosophy in modern and contemporary thought.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Abbreviations of Classical Works
Introduction
PART I: BIOPOLITICS IN ANCIENT THOUGHT
1. Biopolitics and the "boundless people": An Iliadic model
2. Plato and the biopolitical purge of the city-state
3. Sovereign power and social justice: Plato and Aristotle on justice and its biopolitical basis in heterosexual copulation, procreation, and upbringing
PART II: ANCIENT THOUGHT BEYOND BIOPOLITICS
4. Otherwise than (bio)politics: Nature and the sacred in tragic life
5. Beyond biopolitics and juridico-institutional politics: Aristotle on the nature of politics
6. Bene vivere politice: On the (meta)biopolitics of "happiness"
PART III: BIOPOLITICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF ANCIENT THOUGHT
7. Hannah Arendt's genealogy of biopolitics: From Greek materialism to modern human superfluity
8. From biopolitics to biopoetics and back again: On a counterintuitive continuity in Foucault's thought
9. Agamben's Aristotelian biopolitics: Conceptual and methodological problems
Index
List of Contributors
Abbreviations of Classical Works
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