War, Power and Liberalism: the Politicization in the Work of Michel Foucault
This paper attempts to examine the analysis on liberalism that Michel Foucault developed during his last courses in the Collège de France. This analysis becomes a redefinition of the concept of power, understood as war, and a reflection on the concepts of security and population, by means of which t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2009-04-01
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| Series: | Ideas y Valores |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ideasyvalores.unal.edu.co/archivos/PDF%20139/04_Fortanet.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper attempts to examine the analysis on liberalism that Michel Foucault developed during his last courses in the Collège de France. This analysis becomes a redefinition of the concept of power, understood as war, and a reflection on the concepts of security and population, by means of which the relation between war, power and liberalism offers a map of the present time, an age when the new rationalityof government can be defined as specifically liberal. |
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| ISSN: | 0120-0062 |