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Society Must Be Defended
Lectures at the College De France, 1975-76
by Michel Foucault; Francois Ewald
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SOCIETY MUST BE DEFENDED brings together 13 lectures addressing Western politics that Foucault gave as a professor at the prestigious College de France. Rendered into English by Macey, this collection extends Foucaultian thought at a crucial period, with these articles written between the publications of DISCIPLINE AND PUNISHMENT and THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY.
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9780312422660,
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Picador USA,
2003
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Exploring the interrelationship between war and politics, a series of lectures by the late French philosopher traces the evolution of a new understanding of society and its relation to war, revealing war as the permanent basis of all institutions of power.
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