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Foucault and the Modern InternationalThe Figure of Foucault and the Field of International Relations

Foucault and the Modern International: The Figure of Foucault and the Field of International... [Michel Foucault wrote about people as discursive figures. First, I explore the figure of Foucault as normalized in the field of International Relations and presented as a life story. Then I present a reconfigured Foucault. Early on, he formed an ambitious plan for an archeology of the modern world. He organized this plan, set it out in The Order of Things, around discontinuous ages, and language, life and labor as domains of knowledge. Much of Foucault’s subsequent work addresses an omission in this plan—the domain of law and thus of normativity. Disciplinary power presents a puzzle, only solved by identifying a Modernist age, c. 1880–1900, which Foucault did not. Governmentality is then the convergence of modern and modernist technologies of social control.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Foucault and the Modern InternationalThe Figure of Foucault and the Field of International Relations

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series
Editors: Bonditti, Philippe; Bigo, Didier; Gros, Frédéric
Onuf, Nicholas
Foucault and the Modern International — Feb 8, 2017
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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978-1-349-95098-0
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15 –31
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-56153-4_2
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Abstract

[Michel Foucault wrote about people as discursive figures. First, I explore the figure of Foucault as normalized in the field of International Relations and presented as a life story. Then I present a reconfigured Foucault. Early on, he formed an ambitious plan for an archeology of the modern world. He organized this plan, set it out in The Order of Things, around discontinuous ages, and language, life and labor as domains of knowledge. Much of Foucault’s subsequent work addresses an omission in this plan—the domain of law and thus of normativity. Disciplinary power presents a puzzle, only solved by identifying a Modernist age, c. 1880–1900, which Foucault did not. Governmentality is then the convergence of modern and modernist technologies of social control.]

Published: Feb 8, 2017

Keywords: International Relation; Virtue Ethic; Modern World; Life Story; Political Knowledge

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