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Article: Politics as government: Michel Foucault's analysis of political reason.
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- Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
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- October 1, 2005
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This article considers Michel Foucault's work on the rationality of government and the practices in which it has been implemented. Specifically, it develops a critique of Foucault's analysis of political reason in relation to the governmental significance of electoral politics, to liberal commitments to the promotion of individual liberty, and to the focus on government within states to the neglect of the international system and the problem of sovereignty. KEYWORDS: political, governmental, partisan politics, liberalism, states-system
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When, in the conclusion to his Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Michel Foucault tells us that political ...