Biofilosofija: gyvybės „sacrum“ ir „profanum“
Biophilosophy: Sacrum and Profanum of life

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary philosophy pays particular attention to the discourse on the diversity of life forms and the limits of biopolitical power. The American philosopher Eugene Thacker, who has analysed the concept of life from Aristotle to the present, argues that life has not been discussed in its own terms, but has been the subject of appeals to other disciplines, such as biology, theology, ontology and so on. Deleuze describes life as an impersonal, inorganic power, an absolute immanence that obeys only itself. His concept of pure immanence laid the foundations for the concept of biophilosophy. Foucault's analysis of the concept of life drew attention to the relationship between life and power, which he described as the basic mechanism of biopolitics. Now philosophers are looking for a new approach to understanding the essence of life, which would not be tied to the object and subject, but would be immanent only to itself. Biophilosophy attempts to provide such approach by rethinking classical philosophy.

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