Politička filozofija Michela Foucaulta: Biopolitika kao diskurs moderne
Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault: Biopolitics as a Discourse of Modernity

Summary/Abstract: The paper adresses Foucaults definition of the term biopolitics, which is the key to understanding Foucaults political philosophy, but is, at the same time, a category it is also the category which opens a new perspective in understanding many of the questions raised in political philosophy today. Further on, the paper explores relations between the concept of biopolitics with the terms of dispositive/discourse, power, biopower and liberalism. Key point of this paper is that the very concept of biopolitics instituted the possibility of abstract and apodictic power as forms of state governance. Mutual influences of these terms reproduce at least three relevant determinations: a) correlation of the concept of discourse with the terms of power, biopower, biopolitics, b) correlation of the term biopolitics to the tie power/knowledge and their relevance for the concept of life, c) correlation of tie power/knowledge- biopower, biopolitics to the concept of governmentality, i.e. the state and sovereignty.

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