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Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions

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Pyykkönen, M. (2015). Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions. Foucault Studies, 20, 8-35. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.4925
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Authors
Pyykkönen, Miikka
Date
2015
Discipline
KulttuuripolitiikkaCultural Policy
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© Miikka Pyykkönen 2015. This is an open access article published by Copenhagen Business School.

 
This article gives an analysis of Foucault’s studies of civil society and the various liberalist critiques of government. It follows from Foucault’s genealogical approach that “civil society” does not in itself possess any form of transcendental existence; its historical reality must be seen as the result of the productive nature of the power-knowledge-matrices. Foucault emphasizes that modern governmentality—and more specifically the procedures he names “the conduct of conduct”—is not exercised through coercive power and domination, but is dependent on the freedom and activeness of individuals and groups of society. Civil society is thus analyzed as fundamentally ambivalent: on the one hand civil society is a field where different kinds of technologies of governance meet the lives and wills of groups and individuals, but on the other hand it is a potential field of what Foucault called ‘counter-conduct’ – for both collective action and individual political action.
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Copenhagen Business School
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1832-5203
Keywords
Foucault, Michel civil society counter-conduct government(ality) liberalism subject uusliberalismi

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http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/4925

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https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.4925
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