Theoretical Frame of Michel Foucault’s “Biopolitics” Concept Cover Image

Michel Foucault’nun “Biyopolitika” Kavramının Teorik Çerçevesi
Theoretical Frame of Michel Foucault’s “Biopolitics” Concept

Author(s): Altuğ Koç
Subject(s): Political Theory
Published by: Mehmet Seyfettin Erol
Keywords: Power;Subject;Discipline;Governmentality;Biopolitics;

Summary/Abstract: In the works which Michel Foucault debated power, he didn’t try to answer whatthe power is. For him, power is already in everywhere. He seeks how the powers isapplied to individuals and subjects. The relation between power and subject, andgovernance problematic are main course of his works. The surveillance devices of thestates, closure devices, punishment transformations and Panopticon concept whichhe started to examine with The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish: The Birthof the Prison, transformed into biopolitics concept with the History of Sexuality. Theaim of this study is to analyze the Michel Foucault’s biopolitics concept and draw itstheoretical frame

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 193-218
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Turkish