Meditations on the (Im)possibility of regicide: Foucault, government and state sovereignty
| dc.contributor.author | Ng, Konrad Gar-Yeu | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Tully, James | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-13T23:08:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-03-13T23:08:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Political Science | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis investigates the sovereignty problematic and its implications for (re)articulating the political in the absence/presence of the state. Specifically, I sketch three stances. First, I historicise the practices of state sovereignty and government. Second, I retrace Foucault's studies in governmentality as a reply to the sovereignty problematic. Third, I examine how the sovereignty problematic unfolds in post Foucauldian readings of the political, given the processes of movement and change. I argue that post-Foucauldian theorists are unable to resolve Foucault's "incomplete" attempt at regicide. This incompleteness reveals the main stake of (re)articulating the political in the absence/ presence of the state: the line of inside/ outside. Ultimately, what is needed is an interrogation of the ubiquitous role of the statal political community as a measure and model for understanding political life. The politics of inside/ outside remains a political fiction that moderns are not prepared to give up. | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/23503 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | |
| dc.title | Meditations on the (Im)possibility of regicide: Foucault, government and state sovereignty | |
| dc.type | Thesis |