Foucault on Politics, Security and War

Foucault on Politics, Society and Warinterrogates Foucault's controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. By insisting on 'life' as the key referent of power in the modern age, Foucault argues that politics grounds society in war, specifically race war, in ways that come to threaten the very human existence it is pledged to promote. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign- and bio-power and examine the relation ofbios, nomosand race in relation to modern war.

MICHAEL DILLON is Professor of Politics at the University of Lancaster. ANDREW W. NEAL is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.