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• The postmodern and political agency 

  Pulkkinen, Tuija (University of Jyväskylä, 2015)

• From Biopolitics to Biopoetics and Back Again : On a Counterintuitive Continuity in Foucault’s Thought 

  Prozorov, Sergei (Oxford University Press, 2022)

  The chapter addresses the relation between Michel Foucault’s studies of biopolitics and his work on the ancient techniques of the self in the 1980s. It argues that Foucault’s distinction between biopoetics and biopolitics ...

• Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker? 

  Lindholm, Samuel (SAGE Publications, 2023)

  Thomas Hobbes's name often comes up as scholars debate the history of biopower, which regulates the biological life of individual bodies and entire populations. This article examines whether and to what extent Hobbes may ...

• Luther and Biopower : Rethinking the Reformation with Foucault 

  Lindholm, Samuel; Di Carlo, Andrea (Copenhagen Business School, 2024)

  In this article, we propose an alternative Foucauldian reading of Martin Luther’s thought and early Lutheranism. Michel Foucault did not mention the Reformation often, although he saw it as an amplification of pastoral ...

• Bene vivere politice : On the (Meta)biopolitics of “Happiness” 

  Backman, Jussi (Oxford University Press, 2022)

  This chapter approaches the question of biopolitics in ancient political thought looking not at specific political techniques but at notions of the final aim of the political community. It argues that the “happiness” ...