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M. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics is usually perceived through the prism of his concept of a disciplinary society and is interpreted as a special case of the influence of surveillance and punishment on the bodies of individuals. Such perception and interpretation do not exhaust the heuristic potential of the concept of biopolitics. This is evidenced by the works of the second and third stages of Foucault’s work. They served as an impetus for the development of Foucaults concept of governmentality, in which the concept of state interest (hereinafter referred to as GI) occupies a central place. One of the results of development is the idea of the need to apply the concept of governmentality to the analysis of history, politics and public administration of all countries of the world, a special case of which is the USSR/Russia. This general idea inspired the particular purpose of the proposed article - to abstract the content of Foucaults lecture of January 10, 1979 in order to reconstruct the main ideas regarding the connection of the concept of GI with its interpretation of the premises of biopolitics.
V.P. Makarenko (Mon,) studied this question.