Abstract

Scientifi interest to biopolitics in modern political discourse associated with the process of rapprochement natural and social knowledge. The second half of the XX century in western political science formed a tendency to reorient scientifi studies from politic institutions to analyze the behaviour of political actors and its inflence on the political process. Biopolitics focusing his research interest in various aspects of biopolitical issues: study of human and animals behaviour; analyze the formation of primitive societies and nations, study of physiological mechanisms of political behavior and its impact on the political process, analyze the political aspect of bioethics, implemented at the international level economic policy of biodiversity etc. Biopolitics is closely related to anthropology, evolutionary theory, psychoanalysis, issues of environmental sustainability etc. In the western scientifi tradition there is a clear distinction of terms «biopolicy» and «biopolitics». The direction that aims at political practice is determined by the fist term, while the theoretical study of various aspects of the biopolitical perspective tends to a second term. If we use biopolitical studies to analyze the current political reality, we are interested in the following aspects: 1) origins and evolution of the political behaviour, 2) physiological aspects of human behaviour, 3) the impact of education and social norms of the transformation of social behaviour, 4) political behaviour and political process, etc. In this case, one of the central issues of biopolitics is understanding the evolutionary origins of human behaviour, particular tendency that homo sapiens passed to their descendants and its inflence on the political life. In the context of modern political science biopolitics can be defied as an interdisciplinary branch of scientifi knowledge that explores the political person as a species with a focus on physiological mechanisms of political behaviour and its inflence on the political process.