ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the current avenues of the intensive development of the concept beyond its original theoretical articulations. Foucauldians' demonstration of the substantial identity of the biopolitical rationalities of such ideological antagonists as liberalism, Nazism and socialism seem to devalue the dimension of ideology as such as superficial and blind to fundamental political tendencies concealed by ideological differences. Roberto Esposito's approach to biopolitics proceeds through a radical reversal of the conventional biopolitical logic that is intended to evade the violent conversion of biopower into its opposite. The affirmative inflexion of the concept of biopolitics and its articulation with the field of ideology point to the new pathways for the study of biopolitics, which both connect with the classical emancipatory tropes of political thought and enrich the latter by transferring them to the domain of life. From criticizing the capture of life in governmental rationalities, the study of biopolitics is moving towards affirming the emancipatory potentialities of living politics.
