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Foucault on Politics, Security and War

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

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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

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Authors Michael Neal Dillon
Assisted by Dillon (Editor), M Dillon (Editor), M. Dillon (Editor), Michael Dillon (Editor), Neal (Editor), Neal (Editor), A. Neal (Editor), Andrew Neal (Editor)
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 25.09.2008
 
EAN 9781403999047
ISBN 978-1-4039-9904-7
No. of pages 252
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science

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