Social enmity, the state of exception, and the early modern roots of biopolitics: Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben read Thomas Hobbes

This thesis develops a detailed examination of the claims made by two key contemporary political philosophers — Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben — concerning the relationship between sovereignty and biopolitics. I argue that both Foucault and Agamben use the concept of sovereignty in two distinct...

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Main Author: Paszyński, Piotr
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/77153/