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PREMIUM-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Hobbesian Sovereign

The criminal act as an act against is essentially a metaphorical crime against the body of the sovereign. Dylan's saying, what's the conceit behind this? And when you said that, and the way I think about it when I read it is, this is sort of the Hobbesian archetype in play," he says.

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