089605
London
2003
15×23,5
meki
310
hrvatski
Cijena: 25,00 EUR
This volume comprises a series of lectures delivered by the eminent French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault at the prestigious College de France during the academic year 1975–1976. The present volume represents the English edition, translated by David Macey. In this seminal theoretical work, chronologically structured into eleven lectures delivered from January to March 1976, Foucault radically redefines the traditional conception of power and sovereignty. Inverting Clausewitz’s celebrated maxim, the author advances the provocative thesis that politics is essentially war continued by other means, analysing how historical discourses on racial struggles and class conflicts are transformed into modern state mechanisms. The book is of paramount importance to contemporary political philosophy and sociology, as it is precisely within its final section (the lecture of 17 March) that Foucault introduces and elaborates upon his renowned concepts of biopower and biopolitics—the transition from the classical sovereign right to "take life or let live" to the modern state regulation of populations through the principle of "to make live and to let die". The cataloguing of this volume is completed by an exhaustive critical apparatus, which includes a summary of the lectures, an editorial contextual essay, and a detailed index of subjects and names.
