POLITICAL SCIENCE AND THE DISCOURSES OF POWER: DEVELOPING A GENEALOGY OF THE POLITICAL CULTURE CONCEPT

In: History of political thought, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 125-149

Abstract

THE IMPACT OF THE WORKS OF MICHAEL FOUCALT ON POLITICAL SCIENCE ESPECIALLY IN THE US HAS BEEN NEGLIGIBLE. THE PAPER AIMS AT POSSIBLY BROADENING HIS APPEAL TO CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SCIENCE BY ILLUSTRATING THE WORTH OF FOUCAULT'S THINKING FOR FORMULATING A REFLEXIVE UNDERSTANDING OF POLITICS AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS. IN PARTICULAR, IT EXPLORES HOW THE PROBLEMATIC NOTIONS OF "POLITICAL CULTURE" AND "INDIVIDUAL SUBJECTIVITY" MIGHT BE UNDERSTOOD MORE CRITICALLY IN LIGHT OF FOUCAULT'S STYLE OF INTERPRETIVE ANALYSIS.