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The Voice of Conscience

A Political Genealogy of Western Ethical Experience

By: Mika Ojakangas

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The Voice of Conscience

A Political Genealogy of Western Ethical Experience

By: Mika Ojakangas

In Western thought, it has been persistently assumed that in moral and political matters, people should rely on the inner voice of conscience rather than on external authorities, laws, and regulations. This volume investigates this concept, examining the development of the Western politics of conscience, from Socrates to the present, and the formation of the Western ethico-political subject. The work opens with a discussion of the ambiguous role of conscience in politics, contesting the claim that it is the best defense against totalitarianism. It then look back at canonical authors, from the Church Fathers and Luther to Rousseau and Derrida, to show how the experience of conscience constitutes the foundation of Western ethics and politics. This unique work not only synthesizes philosophical and political insights, but also pays attention to political theology to provide a compelling and innovative argument that the experience of conscience has always been at the core of the political Western tradition. An engaging and accessible text, it will appeal to political theorists and philosophers as well as theologians and those interested in the critique of the Western civilization.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1623561671

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On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics

A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower

By: Mika Ojakangas

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On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics

A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower

By: Mika Ojakangas

This book explores the origins of western biopolitics in ancient Greek political thought. Ojakangas’s argues that the conception of politics as the regulation of the quantity and quality of population in the name of the security and happiness of the state and its inhabitants is as old as the western political thought itself: the politico-philosophical categories of classical thought, particularly those of Plato and Aristotle, were already biopolitical categories. In their books on politics, Plato and Aristotle do not only deal with all the central topics of biopolitics from the political point of view, but for them these topics are the very keystone of politics and the art of government. Yet although the Western understanding of politics was already biopolitical in classical Greece, the book does not argue that the history of biopolitics would constitute a continuum from antiquity to the twentieth century. Instead Ojakangas argues that the birth of Christianity entailed a crisis of the classical biopolitical rationality, as the majority of classical biopolitical themes concerning the government of men and populations faded away or were outright rejected. It was not until the renaissance of the classical culture and literature – including the translation of Plato’s and Aristotles political works into Latin – that biopolitics became topical again in the West. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students in the field of social and political studies, social and political theory, moral and political philosophy, IR theory, intellectual history, classical studies.

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1317216350

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The Voice of Conscience

A Political Genealogy of Western Ethical Experience

By: Mika Ojakangas

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A Political Genealogy of Western Ethical Experience

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On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics

A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower

By: Mika Ojakangas

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1317216369

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Finland-Swedes in Michigan

By: Mika Roinila

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Finland-Swedes in Michigan

By: Mika Roinila

Who are the Finland-Swedes? Defined as citizens of Finland with a Swedish mother tongue, many know these people as “Swede- Finns” or simply “Swedes.” This book, the first ever to focus on this ethnolinguistic minority living in Michigan, examines the origins of the Finland-Swedes and traces their immigration patterns, beginning with the arrival of hundreds in the United States in the 1860s. A growing population until the 1920s, when immigration restrictions were put in place, the Finland-Swedes brought with them unique economic, social, cultural, religious, and political institutions, explored here in groundbreaking detail. Drawing on archival, church, and congregational records, interviews, and correspondence, this book paints a vivid portrait of Finland-Swedish life in photographs and text, and also includes detailed maps that show the movement of this group over time. The latest title in the Discovering the Peoples of Michigan series even includes a sampling of traditional Finland-Swedish recipes.

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MSU Press

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1609173252

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9781609173258

Book's by Mika Ojakangas

The Voice of Conscience

The Voice of Conscience

On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics

On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics

The Voice of Conscience

The Voice of Conscience

On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics

On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics

Finland-Swedes in Michigan

Finland-Swedes in Michigan

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