Pouvoir et stratégies chez Poulantzas et Foucault
Poulantzas and Foucault on Power and Strategy. Following the events of May 1968, Foucault and Poulantzas both sharpened their analyses of power, developing in their different ways a sophisticated relational analysis of power relations, exploring both their microfoundations and their macrosocial s...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Français |
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2004
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Poulantzas and Foucault on Power and Strategy. Following the events
of May 1968, Foucault and Poulantzas both sharpened their analyses of power,
developing in their different ways a sophisticated relational analysis of power relations,
exploring both their microfoundations and their macrosocial strategic codification. This
article focuses on these developments from a Marxist rather than Foucauldian perspective
by presenting and critiquing Poulantzas’s own critical appropriation of Foucault’s
arguments in Surveiller et Punir and Volonté de Savoir. In particular, it reveals the force
of the criticisms of Foucault levelled by Poulantzas in L’État, le pouvoir, le socialisme
(1978) and the extent to which Foucault’s theoretical development from 1976 onwards
could be read as an indirect, unintended response to these criticisms. Having identified the
parallels, convergences, and continuing differences between the work of Poulantzas and
Foucault, the article then argues that neither theorist offered an adequate solution to the
problem of the relation between micro-diversity and macro-necessity – with Foucault still
privileging the former, Poulantzas the latter. The concluding section of the article
proposes an alternative solution. |
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