Approaches to Rule: Some Reflections on Biopolitics and Sovereignty in Dialogue with Michel Foucault and Roberto Esposito

Authors

  • Melania Moscoso Instituto de Filosofía, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC

Abstract

Rule and Norm describe the distinctive ways in which power relates with human life either in Ancient Regime or in Modernity as Foucault described it. In its Foucauldian aception biopolitics is the management of Human being as a species. More recent account by Roberto Esposito makes of it a biologization of politics. This article discusses the strengths on Foucault"™s approach to biopolitics.

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Published

2013-05-31

How to Cite

Moscoso, M. (2013). Approaches to Rule: Some Reflections on Biopolitics and Sovereignty in Dialogue with Michel Foucault and Roberto Esposito. Dilemata, (12), 1–13. Retrieved from https://dilemata.net/revista/index.php/dilemata/article/view/212

Issue

No. 12 (2013): Biopolítica y democracia

Section

Debate

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