[en] In his writings concerned with biopolitics Foucault gives the concept of population a central place and means to find its arising at the crossroads of several types of discourse : particularly about species and the public. The genealogy of this bifocal concept is in keeping with some aspects of Canguilhem’s epistemological approach to the regulation of milieus, following his work on scientific ideology. Not only does such a parallel enable us to bring out the critical use of biopolitical concepts, it also leads us to examine the technological sequence which has made it possible for the concept of population to be determined. Such a sequence is articulated in three moments – utopia, practice, theory – which enable us to account for the evolution of the technology of police.
Disciplines :
Philosophy & ethics
Author, co-author :
Oulc'hen, Hervé ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de philosophie > Philosophie morale et politique
Language :
French
Title :
La population, émergence d'un concept technologique
Alternative titles :
[en] Population, the emergence of a technological concept
Publication date :
April 2012
Main work title :
La biopolitique outre-Atlantique après Foucault
Main work alternative title :
[en] Biopolitics across the Atlantic after Foucault
