On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics This book explores the origins of Western biopolitics in ancient Greek poli- tical thought. Ojakangas argues that the conception of politics as the regula- tion of the quantityand qualityof population inthenameof thesecurityand happiness of the state and its inhabitants is as old as Western political thought itself: the politico-philosophical categories of classical thought, parti- cularlythoseofPlatoandAristotle,werealreadybiopoliticalcategories.Intheir works on politics, Plato and Aristotle not only deal with all the central topics of biopolitics from the political point of view, but show how for them these topics are the very keystone of politics and the art of government. Although the Western understanding of politics was already biopolitical in classicalGreece,thebook does not arguethatthe historyof biopoliticswould constitute a continuum from antiquity to the twentieth century. Instead Oja- kangas argues that the birth of Christianity entailed a crisis of the classical biopolitical rationality, as the majority of classical biopolitical themes con- cerning the government of men and populations faded away or were outright rejected. It was not until the Renaissance of classical culture and literature – includingthetranslationofPlato’sandAristotle’spoliticalworksintoLatin–that biopolitics became topical again in the West. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students in the field of socialandpoliticaltheory,moralandpoliticalphilosophy,IRtheory,intellectual history, and classical studies. Mika Ojakangas is Professor of Political Thought, Rhetoric and Culture in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. 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