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Social thought and the arts of government

Social thought and the arts of government. Introduction: What is social thought? 1. Society: Michel Foucault and “social thought” Epistemological space of social thought Concept of civil society 3. The social

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Social thought and the arts of government

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  1. Social thought and the arts of government Introduction: What is social thought? 1. Society: Michel Foucault and “social thought” • Epistemological space of social thought • Concept of civil society 3. The social French governmentality school and the history of the social and the social question 4. Conclusion: links to our present.

  2. Introduction: What is social thought? • Social and society • The social question • Civil society and political and economic thought • Position distinguished from: • hyper-nominalist, • techno-constructionist and • over-politicized conceptions of social thought.

  3. Three alternatives • Nominalism – views society as historically given concept, but not ‘death of the social’ (governmentality) • Techno-constructivism - reject the claim that ‘society has not no substantive character’ (actor network) • Over-politicisation – Westphalian system as a condition of society but too close a link between state and society (world risk society thesis)

  4. Part One: Society • Human sciences • Sociological Region • Problem of social thought: economic and the political-juridical • Two impossible solutions • Civil society as solution

  5. Adam Ferguson’s concept of civil society • Historical-natural constant • Spontaneous synthesis not voluntary union • Permanent matrix of political power • Motor of history

  6. Part Two: the social • “Clearly it is not a question of the adjective that qualifies the set of phenomena which sociology deals with: the social refers to a particular sector in which quite diverse problems and special cases can be grouped together, a sector comprising specific institutions and an entire body of qualified personnel (“social” assistants, “social” workers).” Deleuze.

  7. Towards a history of the social • Donzelot on the liberal interventions into the family. • Procacci on ‘social economy’ • Pauperism and the conditions of the labouring population • Castel and the Social Question • Solidarity/solidarisme/insurance

  8. Conclusion • Hybrid social thought from social economy to the social market economy • The death of the social and Hayek • Social thought – autonomy and generality • Society as a unity • Dialogue of social thought with agency of nation-state

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