Foucault's political challenge : from hegemony to truth /: from hegemony to truth. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Henrik Paul Bang, Professor of Governance, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Australia.
• Other Names: Bang, Henrik Paul
• Contents: Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Preface ; Structure and Content ; Part I The Circle of Parrhesia and Democracy ; 1 Foucault's Political Legacy ; Beheading the archaic king ; The rectangle of good parrhesia ; The political beyond hegemony; Reintroducing political community ; Authorization and normalization beyond the state of exception ; The hegemonic paradox ; From superpower to community power ; Reconfiguring the topography of the common ; The duality of political authority and community ; Beyond opposition to difference Placing political cooperation before consensus and dissensus 2 Political Authority at the Core of the Political ; Why we must do without a theory of the state ; Replacing state by an ensemble of governmentalities ; How the subject fits into a game of truth ; Combining truth and freedom ; Pursuing truth through unceasing problematization ; Problematization upon problematization ; Truth and transformation ; Problematization and the good parrhesia ; 3 Foucault's Postfoundationalism ; Foucault: neither a liberalist nor a Marxist ; Not a Weberian either ; Foucault's analytical framework Formal, strategic and tactical discourse Relationism ; Beyond essentialism and relativism ; Discursive practices ; Studying the duality of regimes ; Freedom-power ; Beyond state and civil society ; Part II Foucault: Problematizing Sovereignty and Discipline ; 4 The Alliance between Science and Hierarchy ; Antipsychiatry: critiquing the psychiatric regime of truth ; Psychiatric power as mastery ; The directive, disciplinary force of commands ; From the asylum to the penitentiary ; Docile bodies ; The obedient subject ; The least body of the condemned man 5 Class Rule in the Name of Democracy The macro-micro chain of class rule and discipline ; The need for more enlightenment ; The dilemma of class rule and discipline today ; So let us behead the king ; 6 Recoding Sovereignty and Discipline ; Sovereign power ; The king's multiple body ; From sovereignty to discipline ; Disciplinary failure ; 7 From Discipline to Biopower ; From subjection to normalization; Discipline and normalization ; Biopower as a supplement to sovereignty and discipline ; The technology of biopower ; Taking life/letting live ; Biopower in the garden of 'earthly delights' Part III The Political beyond Sovereignty 8 Toward a Notion of Unlimited Statist Hegemony; Pastoral power and the art of governing ; Discipline as tied to conduct of conduct ; Raison d'état : the state as enlightened despotism ; The state as firm domination ; On the double nature of raison d'état ; The difference between sovereignty and art of governing ; Raison d'état, coup d'état and beyond ; Moving beyond enlightened despotism ; 9 From Sovereignty to Security and Police ; Governing a population ; Sovereignty and discipline in the security prism ; The micro-meso power of policing
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 251 pages)
• Subjects: 320.01; Social sciences; Political science -- Philosophy; Truth; Liberty; Hegemony; Political sociology; Political theory; Political science_xPhilosophy; Democracy; Political science; World politics; Hegemony; Liberty; Political and social views; Political science -- Philosophy; Truth; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Political Science -- History & Theory; Philosophy -- Political; Political Science -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy; Political Science -- General; Political science & theory; Social & political philosophy; Political structures: democracy; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Electronic books; Political and social views
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137314116; 1137314117
• Related ISBNs: 9780230354289; 0230354289
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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