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State Phobia and Civil Society - The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault (Hardcover)
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State Phobia and Civil Society - The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault (Hardcover)
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State Phobia and Civil Society draws extensively upon the work of
Michel Foucault to argue for the necessity of the concept of the
state in political and social analysis. In so doing, it takes on
not only the dominant view in the human sciences that the concept
of the state is outmoded, but also the large interpretative
literature on Foucault, which claims that he displaces the state
for a de-centered analytics of power. Understanding Foucault means
understanding all his interlocutors—whether Marxists, Maoists,
neoliberals, or social democrats. It requires turning to Foucault's
colleagues, including Deleuze and Guattari, François Ewald, and
Blandine Kreigel, in relation to whom he carved out a position. And
it entails an examination of his legacy in Hardt and Negri, the
theorists of Empire, or in Nikolas Rose, the influential English
sociologist. Foucault's own view is highly ambiguous: he claims to
be concerned with the exercise of political sovereignty, yet his
work cannot make visible the concept of the state. Moving beyond
Foucault, the authors outline new ways of conceiving the state's
role in establishing social order and in mediating between an
inequality-producing capitalist economy and the juridical equality
and political rights of individuals. Arguing that states and their
cooperation remain of vital importance to resolving contemporary
crises, they demonstrate the interdependence of state and civil
society and the necessity of social forms of governance.
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