the history of politic is the history of the efforts of individuals or groups of individuals to accumulate, exercise, and distribute power. indeed politics might be viewed as bounded conflict, as a means of manage conflict such that it does not deteriorate into private feuding or mob violence. we all used the word power often. we all have an intuitive understanding of the term, which is (usuall...

The paper examines the relation between Foucault’s account of modern race and racism in the Society Must Be Defended lectures and his analysis of the emergence of the modern notion of life and its science in The Order of Things. In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault uses the term ‘life’ both with respect to pre-modern and modern political regimes, arguing that in the pre-modern eras there was a...