Abstract
Within the framework of an oikological analysis, the phenomenon of power is reveiled in a genealogical reconstruction of its history of meaning. The first thesis is that power is not to be located in the context of the social, but is anchored in the separated corporeal in-dividuality.
The second thesis explains that philosophy itself reflects the rudimentary structure of power, being motivated in its emergence by and responding to the reality of egocentric power. However, because philosophy does not initially penetrate to the roots of power and subsequently becomes itself entangled in its webs, it evokes a second wave of philosophical action already in antiquity, in both Europe and Asia, that undertakes a more radical treatment of egocentric power.