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  2. Biopolitics - Wikipedia

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    Biopolitics is a concept popularized by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the mid-20th century. [1] At its core, biopolitics explores how governmental power operates through the management and regulation of a population's bodies and lives.

  3. Biopower - Wikipedia

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    Biopower (or biopouvoir in French), coined by French social theorist Michel Foucault, [1] refers to various means by which modern nation states control their populations.In Foucault's work, it has been used to refer to practices of public health, regulation of heredity, and risk regulation, among many other regulatory mechanisms often linked less directly with literal physical health.

  4. Biology and political science - Wikipedia

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    The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences was formed in 1981 and exists to study the field of biopolitics as a subfield of political science. APLS owns and publishes an academic peer-reviewed journal called Politics and the Life Sciences (PLS).

  5. The Definition of Life Is Bad and Doesn't Make Sense - AOL

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    Scientists have debated the definition of life for decades, but they still lack a consensus on the answer.

  6. Giorgio Agamben - Wikipedia

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    Giorgio Agamben (/ ə ˈ ɡ æ m b ə n / ə-GAM-bən; Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo aˈɡamben]; born 22 April 1942) is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, [7] form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and homo sacer.

  7. The Birth of Biopolitics - Wikipedia

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    The Birth of Biopolitics is a part of a lecture series by French philosopher Michel Foucault at the Collège de France between 1978 and 1979 and published ...

  8. Life - Wikipedia

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    The definition of life has long been a challenge for scientists and philosophers. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This is partially because life is a process, not a substance. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] This is complicated by a lack of knowledge of the characteristics of living entities, if any, that may have developed outside Earth.

  9. Marx's theory of human nature - Wikipedia

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    He has conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he directly merges. Conscious life activity directly distinguishes man from animal life activity. Only because of that is he a species-being. Or, rather, he is a conscious being – i.e., his own life is an object for him, only because he is a species-being.