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Title: Dept Sem: Paul Patton
Title: "Foucault and Rawls: Neoliberal Governmentality and the History of
Public Reason"
Abstract:
Foucault and Rawls represent very different approaches to political
philosophy. Whereas the former pursues a resolutely descriptive approach to
the techniques, strategies and forms of rationality of power, the latter
pursues an explicitly normative approach in setting out and arguing for
principles of justice that should inform the government of society
conceived as a fair system of cooperation. I propose to show that the
distance between them is less extreme than might be supposed and that the
differences between them are instructive. Both approaches converge on the
analysis of particular conceptions of the functions of government and its
appropriate institutions and policies. Foucault’s analysis of actual
historical conceptions of government draws attention to a neglected
dimension of Rawls’s discussions of public reason, namely its implications
for the way that society should be governed. Conversely, Rawls reminds us
that normative questions are an inescapable dimension of any genealogy of
liberal or neo-liberal government that aspires to be critical.
When: Wed 21 Sep 15:30 – 17:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: The Refectory, Main Quad, The University of Sydney
Calendar: Seminars
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