Biopolityka indywidualna a biopolityka państwowa
Individual Biopolitics and Biopolitics of the State

Summary/Abstract: If we reject the idea of chronological succession of liberal democracy and totalitarian systems and acclaim the genealogical perspective instead, we will notice another structural division or rift. Here it is not at stake the vertical di_erentiation between totali- tarianism and liberal democracy but the horizontal one: democracy and communism (as a radicalisation of egalitarianism) vs. biopolitics (consisting of two anti-thetical, but complementary forms: Nazism and liberalism, state and individual biopolitics). In Nazism human being is its own body, for liberalism (from Lockeahead), human owns his/her body, so is able to use it, change it and even sell it. In this light Nazism in its basic categories reverses the liberal perspective and grant the possession of the body to the state instead of indi- vidual, not leaving behind the very conditions of bio- political thinking. I argue, that biopolitical character of liberalism differentiates it from democracy and communism mostly. Essay attempts to analyse above mentioned opposition in vertical, as well as horizontal dimension, in order to have a more in-depth insight in the roots of totalitarian systems and to put under scrutiny the liberal sources of contemporary biopolitical regimes

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