A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower
by
Mika Ojakangas
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book explores the origins of western biopolitics in ancient Greek political thought. Ojakangas’s argues that the conception of politics as the regulation of the quantity and quality of population in the name of the security and happiness of the state and its inhabitants is as old as the western...