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- Title
Foucault'da neoliberal yönetimselliğin tarihsel boşlukları: erken neoklasik iktisat ve kamusal seçim teorisi.
- Authors
Gürkan, Ceyhun
- Abstract
Foucault presents an unconventional historical analysis, point of view and material for history of economic thought. In doing so, he identifies the transformation of economic thought as economy and the market became the essential mechanisms of liberal politics in the eighteenth century. However, what mainly interests Foucault is not the theoretical developments and transformations in economic thought. Rather he examines how political economy has constructed the verification or truth regime of liberal government around the market and how it has supported liberalism for the construction and government of subjectivation with its theory of ethics. By extension, he is engaged with political economy as 'knowledge-power' that provides liberalism with governmental apparatuses such as population, security, freedom and civil society, which have the same economic aim with different technologies, through which liberalism aims at productivity while raising criticisms against the economy of disciplinary society. As Foucault moves towards these objects, two historical gaps he left in his history of governmentality draw attention. These are early neoclassical economics that developed between 1870 and 1930, and public choice theory that has developed as part of neoliberal governmentality since 1950. It can hardly be said that macro and micro governmental technologies in the present age of neoliberal governmentality develop independently of these two schools in economic theory. These gaps could be filled by using Foucault's own analytics of government which would be helpful in achieving a comprehensive understanding of neoliberal governmentality and developing and enhancing 'counter-conducts' against it.
- Publication
Felsefelogos, 2016, Issue 63, p87
- ISSN
1309-9175
- Publication type
Article