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In this article the author analyses the transformations of the biopolitics concept from its initial introduction into political-science discussions through the organicist theory of the state to Foucault's critical theory of the subject. In the contemporary debate of social-humanistic theorists, biopolitics delineates a wide area of biomedical, genetic & biotechnological changes of life structures. The addition of a new concept of life to the political sphere requires a redefinition of modern foundations of political construction of the community. The author critically analyses various theories of biopolitics, thus showing that the reception of Foucault's take on biopolitics is a synthetic path toward overcoming the one-sidedness of naturalism/biologism & politicism in the understanding of life & politics in a global age. Biopolitics goes beyond its conceptual definition & becomes a first-rate problem of relations between human life & the way in which state regulates life in the global order of power ever since the traditional understanding of sovereignty & of natural & human rights ceased to be valid. Adapted from the source document.