Original scientific paper

Michel Foucault and the Problem of Power

Rade Kalanj ; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb

Abstract

Michel Foucault is one of the greatest protagonists of »structuralist generation« of thinkers who has an important influence into social and human sciences. The essential specificity of his thought is the analysis of the problem of power. He refuse two traditional approaches — of Dürkheim s sociology and the juridical formalism — and introduce the analysis of power as assemblage of technologies of discipline which use modern society after the age of classicism and so realize his control under the »social body«. This is the microphysic of power. This is because Foucault refuse a traditional theory of state and suggest that the state is only one form of political rationality who characterize the western culture after the time of Machiavelli. The theory of
raison d’Etat is a very important consequence of modern constitution of power, but this is not the final form of power.

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Hrčak ID:

154919

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154919

Publication date:

30.6.1993.

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