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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| Format: | Thesis (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/77153/ |