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An examination of relations between war and politicsFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the College de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year. These lectures do not reduplicate his published books, although they do have themes in common. The lectures show Foucault ranging freely and conversationally over the implications of his research.In "Society Must Be Defended," Foucault deals with the emergence in the early 17th century of a new understanding of society and its relation to war. War was now seen 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 a genealogy of power/knowledge that was to become a primary concern in his final years.
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"[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind which can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions...[He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture."
About the Author:
Michel Foucault was born in France in 1926. At the time of his death in 1984, he was without doubt France's most prominent thinker.
David Macey is the translator of numerous works from French and the author of LACAN IN CONTEXTS, THE LIVES OF MICHEL FOUCAULT, FRANTZ FANON: A LIFE and THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF CRITICAL THEORY
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 014101377X
- ISBN 13 9780141013770
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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