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  title info:
    title: Biopolitics and ancient thought
  name:
    name part: Backman, Jussi
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Cimino, Antonio
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 215 pages).
  abstract: 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.
  table of 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: edited by Jussi Backman and Antonio Cimino.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Biopolitics
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Ancient
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Biopolitique
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie ancienne
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  subject:
    topic: History & Surveys
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: History & Theory
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  classification: JA80 .B56 2022
  classification: 320.01
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2022
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1284290740
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 220126
    record change date: 20260318163937.6
    record identifier: in00005696804
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng