{"id":441,"date":"2015-10-17T20:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T00:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/?p=441"},"modified":"2015-10-18T21:17:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T01:17:01","slug":"joas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/2015\/10\/17\/joas\/","title":{"rendered":"Foucault 3\/13: War in Social Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Bernard E. Harcourt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In light of the rich discussion at Foucault 3\/13, I began researching the role of civil war\u2014and of the war model in social thought more generally\u2014and turned to Hans Joas and Wolfgang Kn\u00f6bl&#8217;s book\u00a0<em>War in Social\u00a0<\/em><i>Thought: Hobbes to the Present<\/i> (Princeton University Press, 2013).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was surprised to discover that the authors report a &#8220;blindness of contemporary sociology, and, above all, social theory with regard to war or\u2014more generally\u2014to violence&#8221; (p. 2).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even more surprised to read that, according to Joas and Kn\u00f6bl,\u00a0Michel Foucault spawned a historical perspective &#8220;from which war was of no special interest&#8221; (p. 15).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No special interest? It appears they have never read Foucault. I will need to look elsewhere. \u00a0Any suggestions are welcome&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bernard E. Harcourt In light of the rich discussion at Foucault 3\/13, I began researching the role of civil war\u2014and of the war model in social thought more generally\u2014and turned to Hans Joas and Wolfgang Kn\u00f6bl&#8217;s book\u00a0War in Social\u00a0Thought:&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/2015\/10\/17\/joas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foucault-313"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}