State Phobia and Civil Society: The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault

by Kaspar Villadsen and Mitchell Dean

Book Overview

State Phobia and Civil Society draws extensively upon the work of Michel Foucault to argue for the necessity of the concept of the state in political and social analysis. In so doing, it takes on not only the dominant view in the human sciences that the concept of the state is outmoded, but also the large interpretative literature on Foucault, which claims that he displaces the state for a de-centered analytics of power. Understanding Foucault...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804796971
• ISBN13: 9780804796972
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"