Microphysics and Macropolitics of Michael Fucault‘s Power Cover Image

Mikrofizika i makropolitika moći Mišela Fukoa
Microphysics and Macropolitics of Michael Fucault‘s Power

Author(s): Vukašin Pavlović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: power; discours; war; truth; knowlege; pleasure; managerial mentality

Summary/Abstract: The author deals with Fucault’s discours and power structure analysis. In this critical review of Fucault’s theory of power, the following questions are emphasises: dominance and production of political subjects; historical genesis of the war and power discourse and the role of war as a producer of power and political institutions; relation of power with force and truth, as well as with knowledge and pleasure; problem of the ruling or managerial mentality (governmentality).

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 7-28
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian