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An Introduction to Foucault and His Concepts

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Foucault's Death Penalty

For a long time one of the characteristic privileges of sovereign power, Foucault writes, was the right to decide life and death. Now the risk is different: At stake is the biological existence of the population. Criminals are no longer put to death to rectify the power of the body of the sovereign. Wars are no longer fought in the name of the king. The existence of everyone is what is put at stake.

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