peer reviewedIn his work Homo Juridicus, Alain Supiot considers the construction of legal personality by force and virtue of law as a precondition for human liberty. Michel Foucault views this same construction of legal personality – the construction of the subject through strategies of power, he calls it – as a ‘construction’ of liberty that is considerably less free than it is made out to be by the Enlightenment law reform projects proposed by Cesare Beccaria and other prominent eighteenth century law reformers. Foucault’s scepticism vis-á-vis Beccaria and others evidently also implies a critical stance vis-á-vis contemporary humanist understandings of law such as Supiot’s. This chapter will endeavour to explain what is at stake in the di...
This paper aims to discuss the forms of subjectivation as proposed by Michael Foucault and the human...
Michel Foucault is well-known as a contemporary representative of counter-Enlightenment. His analyse...
CHANGE OF DISCOURSES. JURIDICAL VERSUS THERAPEUTIC POWER IN THE LIGHT OF MICHEL FOUCAULT’S SOC...
peer reviewedIn his work Homo Juridicus, Alain Supiot considers the construction of legal personalit...
In the change in the paradigm of power from the monarchic to the disciplinary traced by Michel Fouca...
Although Foucault can be rightly seen as one of the most influential thinkers of our times, his idea...
© 2010, Routledge. All rights reserved. The problem of subjectivity – of how to conceptualise the su...
“Law, and its related concept of “right” (droit), occupies an ambivalent location within Foucault’s...
In contrast to other figures generated within social theory for thinking about outsiders, such as Re...
The thesis begins by examining the philosophical underpinnings of Foucault's 'constitutionalist' met...
Michel Foucault provides a radical challenge to the liberal approach to power and law, which is echo...
This article compares Michel Foucault’s way of thinking about sovereignty and law within biopower to...
This article presents the thoughts of Michel Foucault, a cultural historian, philosopher, and intell...
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, 1997.This thesis explores the implications of the work of Michel...
The foucauldian research on the question of the subject, the subject of knowledge and the subjectivi...
This paper aims to discuss the forms of subjectivation as proposed by Michael Foucault and the human...
Michel Foucault is well-known as a contemporary representative of counter-Enlightenment. His analyse...
CHANGE OF DISCOURSES. JURIDICAL VERSUS THERAPEUTIC POWER IN THE LIGHT OF MICHEL FOUCAULT’S SOC...
peer reviewedIn his work Homo Juridicus, Alain Supiot considers the construction of legal personalit...
In the change in the paradigm of power from the monarchic to the disciplinary traced by Michel Fouca...
Although Foucault can be rightly seen as one of the most influential thinkers of our times, his idea...
© 2010, Routledge. All rights reserved. The problem of subjectivity – of how to conceptualise the su...
“Law, and its related concept of “right” (droit), occupies an ambivalent location within Foucault’s...
In contrast to other figures generated within social theory for thinking about outsiders, such as Re...
The thesis begins by examining the philosophical underpinnings of Foucault's 'constitutionalist' met...
Michel Foucault provides a radical challenge to the liberal approach to power and law, which is echo...
This article compares Michel Foucault’s way of thinking about sovereignty and law within biopower to...
This article presents the thoughts of Michel Foucault, a cultural historian, philosopher, and intell...
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, 1997.This thesis explores the implications of the work of Michel...
The foucauldian research on the question of the subject, the subject of knowledge and the subjectivi...
This paper aims to discuss the forms of subjectivation as proposed by Michael Foucault and the human...
Michel Foucault is well-known as a contemporary representative of counter-Enlightenment. His analyse...
CHANGE OF DISCOURSES. JURIDICAL VERSUS THERAPEUTIC POWER IN THE LIGHT OF MICHEL FOUCAULT’S SOC...