Foucault, Biopolitics and the Birth of Neoliberalism

Autor/in	Peters, Michael A.
Titel	Foucault, Biopolitics and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 48 (2007) 2, S.165-178 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
Schlagwörter	Free Enterprise System; Foreign Countries; Political Attitudes; Governance; Power Structure; Freedom; Government Role; World History; Economic Factors; Social Influences; Higher Education; Public Policy; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freie Wirtschaft; Ausland; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Freiheit; Weltgeschichte; Ökonomischer Faktor; Sozialer Einfluss; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Öffentliche Ordnung; Deutschland
Abstract	In his governmentality studies in the late 1970s Foucault held a course at the College de France on the major forms of neoliberalism, examining the three theoretical schools of German ordoliberalism, the Austrian school characterized by Hayek, and American neoliberalism in the form of the Chicago school. Among Foucault's great insights in his work on governmentality was the critical link he observed in liberalism between the governance of the self and government of the state--understood as the exercise of political sovereignty over a territory and its population. Liberal modes of governing are distinguished by the ways in which they utilize the capacities of free acting subjects and, consequently, modes of government differ according to the value and definition accorded the concept of freedom. This paper first briefly discusses Foucault's approach to governmentality, before detailing and analysing Foucault's account of German "ordoliberalism", as a source for the "social market economy", and the EU's "social model". (Contains 10 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10