Foucault, Politics, and Violence

Name: Foucault, Politics, and Violence
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ISBN: 9780810128033

ISBN-10: 0810128039

ISBN-13: 9780810128033

Edition: 2012

Authors: Johanna Oksala

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In Foucault, Politics, and Violence, Johanna Oksala 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. Oksala turns to three of Foucault’s recently published lectures, focusing on Society Must Be Defended; Security, Territory, Population; and The Birth of Biopolitics. She also critically assesses and brings to bear philosophers who advocate agonistic, conflict-centered conceptions of politics,…

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 5/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 194
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations for Works by Foucault


Introduction



The Politicization of Ontology



Foundational Violence



Dangerous Animals



The Politics of Gendered Violence



Political Life



The Management of State Violence



The Political Ontology of Neoliberalism



Violence and Neoliberal Governmentality



Terror and Political Spirituality


Notes


References