From Cosmic Reason to State Reason
Foucault and the Science of Power
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1983-4012.2020.2.35336Keywords:
Pastoral Reason, Reason of State, Foucault, Governmentality, BiopowerAbstract
This article intends to present how Michel Foucault understands the transition from the mode of government based on the pastoral of souls model to the “governmentality” model of men based on scientific discourse (biopower). To this end, an analysis of some classes given in his course “Sécurité, territoire, population” (Security, territory and population) at 1978, where Foucault introduces his reflection on how the idea of “Reason of State” and the sovereignty of power over the pastoral mentality based on government according to the cosmos and the economy of salvation. Finally, it is warned that although in discourse there is a radical break between the old and the modern mode, in practice these models can intersect.
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