Biopolitics - definitions and lines of development of
theoretical reflection
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Data publikacji: 31-03-2014
JoMS 2014;20(1):145-152
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The first who use the neologism biopolitics was M. Roberts. He
argumented that biopolitics allows you to have <>1
.
Sociologists, historians, politicians should consider the body that they
want to describe and govern (the State) as a set of living tissues and buttons
on which operate, when it is considered to be necessary, similarly to the
way that occurs when facing pathologies2
.
In 1960 the term biopolitics was used by A. Starobinski. He defined
biopolitics as << an attempt to explain the history of civilization according
to the rules of the basic cellular and biological life >>.3
This attempt is
based on the idea that, if we admit the existence of purely organic forces
that govern human societies and push masses, nations, civilizations against
one other, we should also admit the existence of constructive and aware
forces that can safeguard humanity and open optimistic new perspectives