Knowledge, Power, and the State of Exception
Document Type
Panel Presentation
Start Date
18-4-2019 10:45 AM
End Date
18-4-2019 12:00 PM
Keywords
Foucault, Agamben, Badiou
Biography
Mike Waldeck Jr. is an undergraduate at Marshall University.
Major
Philosophy, Mathematics, and Spanish
Advisor for this project
Jeffrey L. Powell, Ph.D.
Abstract
In his lecture series, Security Territory Population, Michel Foucault says that what he is doing “is something that concerns philosophy, that is to say the politics of truth.” (Security 3) We will investigate what Foucault means by knowledge and the “politics of truth” through an analysis of power. In particular, we will focus on how Giorgio Agamben analyzes power through the concept of the “state of exception” by way of Alain Badiou’s use of set theory as ontology.
Knowledge, Power, and the State of Exception
In his lecture series, Security Territory Population, Michel Foucault says that what he is doing “is something that concerns philosophy, that is to say the politics of truth.” (Security 3) We will investigate what Foucault means by knowledge and the “politics of truth” through an analysis of power. In particular, we will focus on how Giorgio Agamben analyzes power through the concept of the “state of exception” by way of Alain Badiou’s use of set theory as ontology.
