Containments of the Unpredictable in Arendt and Foucault
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11050772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Hoffman (0000-0001-7656-6893) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 2011 |
| Issue | 154 |
| Pages | 141-162 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0311154141 |
| OpenAlex | W2325610613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
At its core, the concept of biopolitics refers to the constitution of the life of a population as the object and objective of politics. Of course, Michel Foucault pioneered this concept in his analyses from the late 1970s, first in his Collège de France course from the academic year 1975–76, “Society Must Be Defended”, and subsequently in the first volume of The History of Sexuality, published in the fall of 1976.1 Taking as his cue the analysis in the latter publication, Giorgio Agamben, in a few highly schematic but rich and provocative passages from the introduction to his now seminal
Biopower · Constitution · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Michel foucault · Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Population · Psychoanalysis · Schematic · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |