PASTORATE POWER, MARKET LIBERALISM AND A KNOWING WITHOUT KNOWING
PASTORATE POWER, MARKET LIBERALISM AND A KNOWING WITHOUT KNOWING
Author(s): Bruce MoghtaderSubject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Communication studies, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Political economy, Politics and society, History and theory of political science, Social differentiation, Social Theory, Sociology of Education
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: liberalism; neoliberalism; pastorate power; Foucault; political economy of communication;
Summary/Abstract: The works of Michel Foucault have established a cross-disciplinary assessment of the modern liberal state. Specifically, his lectures at the end of the 1970s disposed the integrated web of liberalism as a rationality of government that is inseparable from the legitimizing discourse of political economy. Offering more than a critique, Foucault’s approach broadens the scope in which the institution of government as a meditating power of public and private body is put to test by subjectivities of those it deems governable. Instead of developing a theory of state, he brought attention to the ongoing creation of the knowledge that articulates what it means to govern oneself and others. Adopting this approach, the paper provides further context to Foucault’s assessment of pastorate society and liberalism with attention to modern day return of executive power accompanied by neo-liberalism meddling with liberal values.
Journal: Knowledge Cultures
- Issue Year: 6/2018
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 18-35
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
