THE PHENOMENON OF BIOPOLITICS: STATUS AND PROSPECTS

Analyzed heuristic possibilities, limits of competence and subject field of biopolitics study are an important fragment of a new complex scientific direction of biophilosophy. The position about its socio-natural character is argued: the integration of biology with the sciences of man and society. The reasons for the actualization of the problems of biopolitics and biopower under the current conditions (the market economy crisis, ecological and anthropological crisis, the progress of global warming) are considered.It is shown that the planetary issues of migration, rise in inequality and the New Climate Regime are actively involved in the field of biopolitics. The skepticism about expectations for globalization, that is already perceived as «provincial vision, proposed by a few individuals, representing a very small number of interests», that «has been imposed on everyone and spread everyone». (B. Latour). It is emphasized that ecology has made efforts to attract attention to the global problems of humanity and created an «environmental dimension» in everything, including politicum, and yet it has not lived up to the expectations: Greens Parties remain dependent everywhere on the minorities seeking support. It is at the level of biopolitics, one has to be understood that the inaccuracy of the classic contrast the environment with the organism, nature with man and human nature with culture.It is concluded that biopolitics has to play a pivot role in the decision of the global «survival strategy» and the preservation of life on the planet. It must find support and resilience in a situation of unprecedented destruction of all living things.