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

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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
Subjects:	Foucault Agamben Hobbes Diggers Levellers sovereignty biopolitics popular illegalism social enemy state of exception history from below
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/77153/

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