title: Biopolitics: Context and text of philosophy
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metadata.value: Pogonyaylo, Alexander G.
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metadata.value: 2021-01-21T21:50:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-01-21T21:50:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Pogonyaylo A. G. Biopolitics: Context and text of philosophy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2020, vol. 36, issue 4, pp. 657–674.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2020.405
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/22667
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metadata.value: The article focuses on the process of conceptualizing biopolitics within the framework of
  philosophy, which is developing in the context of modern biopolitics. The text of “biopolitical philosophy” becomes part of its own context — the real biopolitical situation, thereby
  changing it. In addition, it correlates with the general philosophical context of the Western
  philosophical tradition, namely, denying it, deconstructing, and overcoming it in different
  senses, which are far from being reduced to Hegel’s Aufhebung. In this manner, the text of
  biopolitical philosophy is integrated into the current post-metaphysics with its well-known
  “turns” (practical, linguistic, ethical, etc.). As a political philosophy, biopolitics is a radical
  rethinking of the political philosophy of modernity, caused by the collapse of the “project” of
  the Enlightenment and the crisis of bourgeois representative democracy. This relationship of
  biopolitics with philosophical classics is analyzed in the article on the example of the two most
  significant biopolitical concepts created by Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. Agamben’s
  ambition is to complete what Foucault had begun; but the way he “develops” the ideas of
  his predecessor is at a fundamental departure from Foucault’s version of biopolitics. Despite
  the fact that both begin with criticism of traditional political philosophy, turning from the
  “essential” formulation of the question of power and government (the problem of the source
  of power, its legitimation and sovereignty) to the question of how power is exercised. In this
  context, the problem of dispositive arises. For Foucault it is a historically defined type of ruling
  rationality (gouvernementalité). Agamben understands dispositive as a universal structure,
  thanks to which the animal is “humanized” through the exclusion of “naked life”. A different
  understanding of dispositive gives rise to two different “archaeologies”. Foucault is wary
  of philosophical universalism, while Agamben is enthusiastic about immersion into “beginnings”,
  albeit conceivable “event-wise”.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project no. 19-011-00826.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 36; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: biopolitics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sovereignty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dispositive
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state of exclusion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: life-form
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Biopolitics: Context and text of philosophy
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metadata.value: Article
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