Foucault Michel

This author's articles

• «Liberalism and the culture of danger»

  26 December 2006
  Foucault inserts a new conceptual acceleration of the passage to liberalism, through fear and danger. Danger becomes the prerogative of the liberal function, through a culture of stimulating and reproducing a notion of continuous danger to the actors of economic life.

• «Liberalism and Danger in Michel Foucault’s Naissance de la Biopolitique (Lesson of January 24, 1979)» : Further remarks

  26 December 2006
  «Liberalism is engaged into a mechanism where it will have, at every moment, to arbitrate the liberty and security of individuals around this notion of danger». This phrase/sentence, drawn from Michel Foucault’s lesson of January 24, 1979 (Naissance de la Biopolitique, p. 67), is of great importance, since it makes clear, for the first time in the philosopher’s work, the link between the concept of liberalism on the one hand and that of security and liberty on the other, using as an intermediary the notion of danger.

• «Liberalism and Danger in Michel Foucault’s Naissance de la Biopolitique (Lesson of January 24, 1979)»

  26 December 2006
  Foucault inserts a new conceptual acceleration of the passage to liberalism, through fear and danger. Danger becomes the prerogative of the liberal function, through a culture of stimulating and reproducing a notion of continuous danger to the actors of economic life.

• Surveiller et punir

  27 December 2004
  In this book Michel Foucault proposes his now well known analysis of the Panopticon that inspires most of the literature on the so-called surveillance society. At the very core of the analysis Michel Foucault proposes lies the relational characteristic of power which opens up the possibility to consider both power and its co-constitutive form of resistance.

• Sécurité, Territoire, Population

  27 December 2004
  In this lecture given at the College de France in 1977-1978, Michel Foucault proposes to elaborate on what he had called at the end of «Il faut défendre la société»a security dispositive.