Biopolitics

elective monographs
general courses

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Classroom

Lecture in the field of biopolitics, presents the philosophical and political dimension of issues related to life. The subject of the lecture is in a significant way connected with the history of philosophy, ethics, legal philosophy, political sociology and political science.

Lecture in the field of biopolitics, presents the philosophical and political dimension of issues related to life. The subject of the lecture is in a significant way connected with the history of philosophy, ethics, legal philosophy, political sociology and political science.

Examples of issues discussed during the lecture:

I. Biopolitics as a political practice, among others

Basic needs in the political perspective: the need for shelter, leisure, nutrition, hygiene, safety, reproduction, sex as political problems

II. History of medicine as a history of the political body

Homo sacer, sovereignty and exclusion

Mental health and madness

Bacteria and political implementation of hygiene

Surgery and political body

Viruses and immunology

Genetics and racism

The problem of dehumanization of the "strenger"

Imperialism from the perspective of biopolitics

III. Biopolitics: from practice to theory

A philosophical approach to biopolitics, including:

Hannah Arendt

Michel Foucault

Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito

Podręczniki zalecane (fragmenty): Robert Esposito (2008), Biopolityka; R. Esposito, Pojęcia polityczne (2015); Th. Lemke Biopolityka; Robert Blank (2001). Biology and Political Science; Przewodnik po współczesnej filozofii politycznej red. R.E.Goodwin i in.; W. Kymlicka Współczesna filozofia polityczna; T. Buksiński Współczesne filozofie polityki. Agamben G., Homo Sacer, Suwerenna władza i nagie życie, Warszawa 2008., Arendt H., Korzenie totalitaryzmu, Warszawa 2008., Becker G.S., Ekonomiczna teoria zachowań ludzkich, tłum. H. Hagemejerowa, K. Hagemejer, PWN Warszawa 1990, Foucault M., Narodziny biopolityki, Warszawa 2011, Foucault M., Trzeba bronić społeczeństwa, Warszawa 1998, Franklin S., (red), Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences, School of American Research Press 2000, Giddens A., Nowoczesność i tożsamość. „Ja” i społeczeństwo w epoce późnej nowoczesności, Warszawa 2001 polityki;

Acquired knowledge:

knows the philosophical terminology in biopolitics and its relation to bioethics

has a broad knowledge of the norms constituting and regulating political structures and institutions (knowledge / power) and the sources of these norms, their nature, changes and ways of influencing human behavior;

comprehensively knows and thoroughly understands selected positions in modern biopolitics in the relationship between life and politics.

has a broad knowledge of the relationship between the shaping of political ideas and normative concepts of life understood as dzoe and bios and changes in the social and political sphere;

knows research methods and argumentation strategies in the field of biopolitics and know how to interpret the philosophical text in this field;

has knowledge of subject and methodological specificity of biopolitics.

Acquired skills:

develops research skills and plans research projects;

creatively uses philosophical and methodological tools in formulating hypotheses and constructing critical arguments;

evaluates the degree of significance of the problem under analysis or argumentation;

detects the relationship between the philosophical ideas and social and cultural processes,

precisely formulate complex biopolitical problems in speech and in writing;

makes theses and criticizes them;

selects and creates argumentative strategies, constructs advanced critical arguments, formulates comprehensive answers to criticism;

Acquired social competences:

independently undertakes and initiates professional activities; plans and organizes their course

participates in social and cultural life,

is interested in innovative philosophical concepts in connection with other parts of cultural and social life;

actively participates in different activities; knows philosophical heritage and use it to understand of social and cultural events;

can interact and in a group work, taking on different roles.

Activity during the lecture– 25%,

Exam based on the test with closed questions (checking knowledge) – 30%

and open questions (checking skills) – 45%