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The Criticism of Liberalism in Foucaultian Perspective: Power, Governmentality, Security

Year 2012, Issue: 14, 65 - 78, 01.09.2012

Abstract

In Foucaultian way, liberalism corresponds to an “art of government” and it creates a new type of power peculiar to itself. The basis of this Foucaultian paradigm of power places on the historical assessment of liberalism. Liberalism, as a discourse of truth, representing a political regime by the market which sides itself against the fact of the “extreme power” by state. This liberal regime seeks to improve a new policy which prevents the state against market by processing a new type of art of government. For Foucault, this policy is fortified with new modes of power which them all peculiar. Finally, for Foucault, liberalism is a new, and more importantly, a different experience of power.

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MICHEL FOUCAULT’DA LİBERALİZM ELEŞTİRİSİ: İKTİDAR, YÖNETİMSELLİK VE GÜVENLİK

Year 2012, Issue: 14, 65 - 78, 01.09.2012

Abstract

Foucault için liberalizm, bir tür “yönetim sanatı”na art of government tekabül etmekte ve kendine özgü bir iktidar biçimi meydana getirmektedir. Bu iktidar biçiminin temelinde liberalizmin tarihsel anlamda ele alınışı gelmektedir. Liberalizm, bir hakikat söylemi olarak piyasanın “aşırı yönetim” olgusuna karşı duruşuyla şekillenmiş siyasal bir rejimi ifade eder. Bu liberal rejim, yönetimin piyasaya dönük müdahalelerine karşı önleyici bir siyasa policy geliştirmeyi amaçlayarak yeni bir “yönetim sanatı” art of government devreye sokar. Foucault’ya göre bu siyasa, kendine özgü iktidar kipleri ile desteklenmektedir. Foucault için liberalizm, özünde yeni ve farklı bir iktidar pratiğidir.

References

  • FOUCAULT, Michel. “Truth and Power”, Colin Gordon (ed), Michel Foucault, Power and Knowledge: Selected Interviews&Other Writings 1972-1977 (içinde), Vintage Books, New York, 1980
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Cinselliğin Tarihi, çev. Hülya Uğur Tanrıöver, Ayrıntı, İstanbul, 2010
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Hapishanenin Doğuşu, çev. Mehmet Ali Kılıçbay, İmge, Ankara, 2006
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Deliliğin Tarihi, çev. Mehmet Ali Kılıçbay, İmge, Ankara, 2006.
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Society Must Be Defended, Penguin Books, London, 2004
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France 1978-1979, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010
  • LEMKE, Thomas. Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction, çev. Eric Frederic Tump, New York University Press, New York, 2011
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Özne ve İktidar, çev. Işık Ergüden ve Osman Akınhay, Ayrıntı, İstanbul, 2011
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Entelektüelin Siyasi İşlevi, çev. Işık Ergüden ve Osman Akınhay, Ayrıntı, İstanbul, 2005
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Security, Territory and Population: Lectures at the College de France 1977-1978, Picador, New York, 2007
  • NEALON, Jeffrey T. Foucault Beyon Foucault: Power and Its Intensification Since 1984, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2008
  • BROWN, Wendy. “Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy”, Wendy Brown (ed), Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics (içinde), Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2005
  • ÇALKIVİK, Aslı. “Ölümüne Yaşatmak: Güvenlik Sorunu Olarak „Yaşam‟”, Toplum ve Bilim, Sayı: 122, İletişim, İstanbul, 2011
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Ethics
Journal Section Research Article
Authors

Efe Baştürk This is me

Publication Date September 1, 2012
Submission Date May 12, 2014
Published in Issue Year 2012 Issue: 14

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Chicago Baştürk, Efe. “MICHEL FOUCAULT’DA LİBERALİZM ELEŞTİRİSİ: İKTİDAR, YÖNETİMSELLİK VE GÜVENLİK”. FLSF Felsefe Ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, no. 14 (September 2012): 65-78.

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