Society Must Be Defended by Michel Foucault

Society Must Be Defended by Michel FoucaultA devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilisation, from one of the most radical thinkers of the twentieth century Society Must Be Defended is taken from a series of lectures given by Foucault at the Collge de France in 1975 76. Using war to analyse power relations, he contends that politics is ultimately a continuation of battlefield violence, and that ingrained ideas of sovereignty and individual rights are attempts

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