Foucault on Politics, Security and War
Contributors: Michael Dillon (Editor); Andrew Neal (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 19, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403999047
Subjects: Political Ideologies - General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations
Description: This diverse collection of essays is the first to specifically engage Michel Foucault on questions of politics, security and war. It is also the first to take up the provocations found in Michel Foucault₂s recently published Coll̈ge de France lectures, particularly Society Must Be Defended, Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics. The contributors reassess the way Foucault worked experimentally and in collaboration and dialogue with others. In so doing, the essays pursue lines of enquiry that Foucault briefly extolled but did not exhaust, and take him in directions that he could not have foreseen, including the War on Terror, risk, biosecurity and biopolitics, AIDS, racial and ethnic conflict, and the critique of law. Foucault on Politics, Security and War is an essential contribution to Foucault scholarship and also poses wider challenges to political theory, international relations, security studies and legal theory.