Summary
Luciano Nosetto: Michel Foucault and politics
Michel Foucault has risen to the top of international quotation indices several times in the last decade. The reason for the increasingly frequent and numerous references to his works lies not only in the popularity of his thought in the international academic community, its richness and provocativeness, but also in one specific reason - the publication of his lectures at the Collège de France, first in French, and then in numerous translations published in the last two decades. Foucault and Politics, a book by Luciano Nocet, a young Argentine philosopher, is one of a series of studies that could not have been created without those lectures, available today, above all the courses Society Needs to Defend from 1976 and The Birth of Biopolitics. (1978–1979), and to a lesser extent Security, territory, population (1977–1978) and criminal society. (1972–1973).
Noseto talks about Foucault's views of the European tradition of political philosophy, techniques of government, different types of power, his concepts of biopower, biopolitics and governance, which were carefully explained in works published during Foucault's lifetime, and sometimes caused misunderstandings and unjustified criticism... Noseto is particularly interested in the extent to which Foucault's thought is applicable to specific political programs, given the political circumstances in Argentina.
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