
Foucault on Politics, Security and War
Published on 25. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 243 pages
978-0-230-28537-8 (ISBN)
Description
Foucault on Politics, Society and War interrogates Foucault's controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign and bio-power and examine the relation of bios, nomos and race in relation to modern war.
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Edition
2008 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
IX, 243 p.
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-28537-8 (9780230285378)
DOI
10.1057/9780230229846
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M. Dillon | A. Neal
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Persons
MICHAEL DILLON is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster, UK. He has published widely on politics of security and on political and cultural theory. Among his books are
Politics of Security: Towards a Political Philosophy of Continental Thought
(1996). Michael Dillon is also co-editor of
The Journal of Cultural Research
.
ANDREW W. NEAL is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His PhD, which he is currently developing for publication as Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism: Liberty, Security and the War on Terror , won the British International Studies Association thesis prize in 2006. He has published articles as sole and joint author on Foucault, exceptionalism and critical approaches to security.
ANDREW W. NEAL is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His PhD, which he is currently developing for publication as Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism: Liberty, Security and the War on Terror , won the British International Studies Association thesis prize in 2006. He has published articles as sole and joint author on Foucault, exceptionalism and critical approaches to security.
Content
Introduction; M.Dillon& A.W.Neal PART I: SITUATING FOUCAULT Strategies for Waging Peace: Foucault as Collaborateur; S.Elden PART II: POLITICS, SOVEREIGNTY, VIOLENCE Goodbye War on Terror? Foucault and Butler on Discourses of Law, War and Exceptionalism; A.W.Neal Life Struggles: War, Discipline, and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault; J.Reid Security: A Field Left Fallow; D.Bigo Revisiting Franco's Death: Life and Death and Bio-Political Governmentality; P.Palladino PART III: BIOS, NOMOS, RACE Law Versus History: Foucault's Genealogy of Modern Sovereignty; M.Valverde The Politics of Death: Race War, Bio-Power and AIDS in the Post-Apartheid; D.Fassin Security, Race, and War; M.Dillon