Foucault and the Modern International

Silences and Legacies for the Study of World Politics
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-349-95098-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 6064 g

Reihe: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy

This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of the most self-evident characteristics of our contemporary world-'international', 'neoliberal', 'biopolitical' and 'global'- and thus fill significant gaps in both international and Foucault studies. The chapters discuss what a Foucauldian perspective does or does not offer for understanding international phenomena while also questioning many appropriations of Foucault's work. This transdisciplinary volume will serve as a reference for both scholars and students of international relations, international political sociology, international political economy, political theory/philosophy and critical theory more generally.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bonditti, Philippe

Gros, Frédéric

Bigo, Didier

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The International as an Object for Thought.- 2. The Figure of Foucault and the Field of International Relations.- 3. Michel Foucault and International Relations: Cannibal Relations.- 4. Microphysics Of Power Redux.- 5. Political Spirituality: Parrhesia, Truth And Factical Finitude.- 6. Power as Sumbolon: Sovereignty, Governmentality and the International.- 7. Foucault and Method.- 8. Silencing Colonialism: Foucault and The International.- 9. Violence and the Modern International: An Archaeology of Terrorism.- 10. Foucault and the Historical Sociology of Globalization.- 11. On Liberalism: Limits, the Market and the Subject.- 12. On Bureaucratic Formalization: The Reality-Like Fiction of Neoliberal Abstractions.- 13. Too-Late Liberalism: From Promised Prosperity to Permanent Austerity.- 14. Biopolitics in the Twenty-First Century: The Malthus-Marx Debate and the Human Capital Issue.- 15. Mesopolitics: Foucault, Environmental Governmentality and the History ofthe Anthropocene.- 16. The Word and the Things: An Archaeology of An Amnesic Notion.- 17. Foucault and Geometrics.- 18. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Philippe Bonditti holds a doctorate in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris, France, and is currently Lecturer at the European School of Political and Social Science (ESPOL-UCL), France. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontificial Universidade Catholica in Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio), Brazil, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute, Brown University, US. His research interests focus on contemporary discourses on violence, war, and security, the transformations of the modern state and the art of government, (critical) International Relations theory, (critical) security studies, contemporary French philosophy, and political theory.

Didier Bigo is Associate Professor (tenure) at Sciences-Po, France and Professor of International Relations at Kings College London, UK. Bigo is Editor-in-Chief of the French quarterly journal Cultures & Conflits and launched, with R. B. J. Walker, the journal International Political Sociology. His research interests include security and liberty, biometrics identifiers and databases, antiterrorist policies in Europe after 9/11, the merging of internal security and external security, migrants and refugees in Europe, critical security studies, and international political sociology.

Frédéric Gros is Professor of Philosophy at Sciences Po Paris, France. His research focuses on contemporary French philosophy—in particular the thought of Michel Foucault, whose writings, such as Subjectivity and Truth, he has edited—the foundations of the right to punish, issues of war and security, and the ethics of the political subject.