Francois Ewald's The Birth of Solidarity-first published in French in 1986 and appearing here in English for the first time-is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state.
François Ewald Book order
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- 2003
An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers From 1971 until 1984 at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures ranging freely and conversationally over the range of his research. In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault deals with the emergence in the early seventeenth century of a new understanding of war as the permanent basis of all institutions of power, a hidden presence within society that could be deciphered by an historical analysis. Tracing this development, Foucault outlines the genealogy of power and knowledge that had become his dominant concern.
