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An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century''s most influential thinkers

From 1971 until 1984 at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures ranging freely and conversationally over the range of his research. In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault deals with the emergence in the early seventeenth century of a new understanding of war as the permanent basis of all institutions of power, a hidden presence within society that could be deciphered by an historical analysis. Tracing this development, Foucault outlines the genealogy of power and knowledge that had become his dominant concern.

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    Publisher: Pan Macmillan
    Publication Date: 00/12/2003
    ISBN13: 9780312422660, 978-0312422660
    ISBN10: 0312422660
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    Political science and theory Social and political philosophy Social theory Michel Foucault Books by Michel Foucault

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century''s most influential thinkers

    From 1971 until 1984 at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures ranging freely and conversationally over the range of his research. In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault deals with the emergence in the early seventeenth century of a new understanding of war as the permanent basis of all institutions of power, a hidden presence within society that could be deciphered by an historical analysis. Tracing this development, Foucault outlines the genealogy of power and knowledge that had become his dominant concern.

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