The Birth of Biopolitics

Target entity: The Birth of Biopolitics
Context triple: [Security, Territory, Population, chronologicallyPrecedes, The Birth of Biopolitics]

• A. The Myth of the State
  The Myth of the State is a posthumously published philosophical work by Ernst Cassirer that analyzes the role of myth and symbolic thought in the rise of modern political ideologies and totalitarianism.
• B. The Concept of the Political
  The Concept of the Political is Carl Schmitt’s influential treatise that defines the political realm through the friend–enemy distinction and critiques liberalism’s attempt to depoliticize conflict.
• C. Crafting the Neoliberal State
  Crafting the Neoliberal State is a scholarly work by sociologist Loïc Wacquant that analyzes how neoliberalism reshapes state power, punishment, and social policy.
• D. A Preface to Politics
  A Preface to Politics is a 1913 political and social critique by Walter Lippmann that challenges traditional liberalism and explores how modern industrial society demands new approaches to democracy and governance.
• E. Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
  "Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason" is a scholarly work by anthropologist Talal Asad that critically examines how secular modernity, state power, and notions of the self are shaped through practices of translation and calculative reasoning.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: The Birth of Biopolitics
Target entity description: The Birth of Biopolitics is a series of 1978–1979 lectures by Michel Foucault that analyze the emergence of neoliberal governmentality and its implications for modern forms of power over life and populations.

• A. The Myth of the State
  The Myth of the State is a posthumously published philosophical work by Ernst Cassirer that analyzes the role of myth and symbolic thought in the rise of modern political ideologies and totalitarianism.
• B. The Concept of the Political
  The Concept of the Political is Carl Schmitt’s influential treatise that defines the political realm through the friend–enemy distinction and critiques liberalism’s attempt to depoliticize conflict.
• C. Crafting the Neoliberal State
  Crafting the Neoliberal State is a scholarly work by sociologist Loïc Wacquant that analyzes how neoliberalism reshapes state power, punishment, and social policy.
• D. A Preface to Politics
  A Preface to Politics is a 1913 political and social critique by Walter Lippmann that challenges traditional liberalism and explores how modern industrial society demands new approaches to democracy and governance.
• E. Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
  "Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason" is a scholarly work by anthropologist Talal Asad that critically examines how secular modernity, state power, and notions of the self are shaped through practices of translation and calculative reasoning.
• F. None of above. chosen