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Foucault and the Modern InternationalFoucault and the Historical Sociology of Globalization

Foucault and the Modern International: Foucault and the Historical Sociology of Globalization [This chapter sets Foucault’s work within the context of the historical and comparative sociology of globalization, the main topic in the study of international relations. However circumscribed the viewpoint chosen by the historical and comparative sociology of the political, it should not be neglected in any reconsideration of the thought of Foucault, who quite obviously never stops talking about the political; in his constant concern to apprehend the historicity of the episteme, of subjection and the experiences of subjectivation; in his study of practice; in his rejection of any essentialist and metaphysical definition of power; and in his reminders to us that power cannot just be reduced to the state and its structures. This chapter will also take into account the formidable convergence between the thought of Michel Foucault and that of Max Weber, if we accept that the latter is the totem of the historical and comparative sociology of the political and is mainly concerned with the relationship between capitalism and universality, grasped through the prism of the West and its Sonderentwicklung.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Foucault and the Modern InternationalFoucault and the Historical Sociology of Globalization

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series
Editors: Bonditti, Philippe; Bigo, Didier; Gros, Frédéric
Bayart, Jean-François
Foucault and the Modern International — Feb 8, 2017
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.
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978-1-349-95098-0
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175 –188
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-56153-4_10
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Abstract

[This chapter sets Foucault’s work within the context of the historical and comparative sociology of globalization, the main topic in the study of international relations. However circumscribed the viewpoint chosen by the historical and comparative sociology of the political, it should not be neglected in any reconsideration of the thought of Foucault, who quite obviously never stops talking about the political; in his constant concern to apprehend the historicity of the episteme, of subjection and the experiences of subjectivation; in his study of practice; in his rejection of any essentialist and metaphysical definition of power; and in his reminders to us that power cannot just be reduced to the state and its structures. This chapter will also take into account the formidable convergence between the thought of Michel Foucault and that of Max Weber, if we accept that the latter is the totem of the historical and comparative sociology of the political and is mainly concerned with the relationship between capitalism and universality, grasped through the prism of the West and its Sonderentwicklung.]

Published: Feb 8, 2017

Keywords: Chinese Communist Party; Protestant Ethic; Historical Sociology; Political Critique; Global Subject

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