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## at M anoa The concept of biopolitics was first outlined by Michel Foucault (2003, 2007, 2009) in his lectures at the Coll ege de France in the late 1970s in order to name and analyze emergent logics of power in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. According to Foucault, biopolitics refers to the processes by which human life, at the level of the population, emerged as a distinct political problem in Western societies. Foucault's early formulation of biopolitics was part of a broader attempt in his genealogical studies to think beyond Marxist theories of power and the State. Influencing Foucault at the time were a number of historical factors including longstanding frustration with intellectual orthodoxy in the French academy particularly the dominance of structural Marxism; the need for new political theory in light of the eruptions of 1968; the arrival of former eastern bloc dissidents in France fueling growing disillusionment with the Soviet Union; the defeat of the French Socialist and Communist Parties in 1978; and the emergence neoliberal thought-Thatcher in the United Kingdom, Giscard in France, Schmidt in Germany-that foretold a looming crisis of the left. Foucault's analysis o

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Author

Alexander J. Means

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences