Etymology

biopolitics

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Today it means: The interdisciplinary studies relating biology and political science. Full definition →

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From bio- + politics. Sense 2 was developed by Michel Foucault in The History of Sexuality (1976), sense 3 by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in Empire (2000).

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