Foucault, Politics, and Violence

Informationen zum Autor Johanna Oksala is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. Klappentext In her book, Oksala shows that the arguments for the ineliminability of violence from the political are often based on excessively broad, ontological conceptions of violence distinct from its concrete and physical meaning and, on the other hand, on a restrictively narrow and empirical understanding of politics as the realm of conventional political institutions. Zusammenfassung Challenges the assumption of the inextricability of violence from the political that is often based on excessively broad! ontological conceptions of violence distinct from its concrete and physical meaning and! on the other hand! on a restrictively narrow and empirical understanding of politics as the realm of conventional political institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Johanna Oksala
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2011
• EAN: 9780810128033
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2803-3
• No. of pages: 186
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous