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The general consensus is that Foucault’s main contribution to political thought is to have decentralized the study of power, shifting it from the question of the state to issues long neglected and held to be infrapolitical, such as madness,prison, hospitals, and sexuality. The fact is indisputable: Foucault never ceased to fight against the ‘overvaluation of the problem of state’. However, Foucault’s rejection of the state as an object of political theory does not stop there. During the 1970s, he conducted an ambitious genealogical study of state, examining it as a product of modern forms of power. This book aims to highlight the contribution of Foucault's genealogical approach to the sociogenesis of the state, as well as the extent to which it resonates with historical sociology.

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Foucault, an Unlikely Theorist of the State

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    2025年

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  • Arnault Skornicki

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The general consensus is that Foucault’s main contribution to political thought is to have decentralized the study of power, shifting it from the question of the state to issues long neglected and held to be infrapolitical, such as madness,prison, hospitals, and sexuality. The fact is indisputable: Foucault never ceased to fight against the ‘overvaluation of the problem of state’. However, Foucault’s rejection of the state as an object of political theory does not stop there. During the 1970s, he conducted an ambitious genealogical study of state, examining it as a product of modern forms of power. This book aims to highlight the contribution of Foucault's genealogical approach to the sociogenesis of the state, as well as the extent to which it resonates with historical sociology.