Foucault and Politics

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The first third of the seminar is devoted to gaining the necessary background to discussing Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France of the late-1970s. The principal background text is Discipline and Punish. We then turn to three, consecutive sets of lectures: Society Must Be Defended (1975-6), Security, Territory, Population (1977-8), and The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-9). The works will be read in English translation and discussion is in English. French is always a plus, however.