Exception and Governmentality in the Critique of Sovereignty

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dc.contributor.authorBurles, Regan Maynard
dc.contributor.supervisorWalker, R. B. J.
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-30T20:24:13Z
dc.date.available2014-04-30T20:24:13Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-04-30
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the relation between exception and governmentality in the critique of sovereignty. It considers exception and governmentality as an expression of the problem of sovereignty and argues that this problem is expressed both within the accounts of sovereignty that exception and governmentality articulate, as well as between them. Taking Michel Foucault and Carl Schmitt as the paradigmatic theorists of governmentality and exception, respectively, I engage in close readings of the texts in which these concepts are most thoroughly elaborated: Security, Territory, Population and Political Theology. These readings demonstrate that, despite their apparent differences, exception and governmentality cannot be differentiated from one another. The instability evident in Schmitt and Foucault’s concepts show that the relation between them is best characterized as aporetic.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0615en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0616en_US
dc.description.proquestemailreganburles@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5334
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectSovereigntyen_US
dc.subjectExceptionen_US
dc.subjectGovernmentalityen_US
dc.subjectCarl Schmitten_US
dc.subjectMichel Foucaulten_US
dc.subjectModernityen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectAporiaen_US
dc.titleException and Governmentality in the Critique of Sovereigntyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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