{"id":907,"date":"2015-10-30T18:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testing.elotroalex.com\/foucault\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-02-07T22:57:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T03:57:02","slug":"war-in-social-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/2015\/10\/30\/war-in-social-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Social Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><strong>By Bernard E. Harcourt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s book\u00a0<em>War in Social\u00a0<\/em><i>Thought: Hobbes to the Present<\/i> (Princeton University Press, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to discover that the authors report a \u201cblindness of contemporary sociology, and, above all, social theory with regard to war or\u2014more generally\u2014to violence\u201d (p. 2).<\/p>\n<p>Even more surprised to read that, according to Joas and Kn\u00f6bl,\u00a0Michel Foucault spawned a historical perspective \u201cfrom which war was of no special interest\u201d (p. 15).<\/p>\n<p>No special interest? It appears they have never read Foucault. I will need to look elsewhere. \u00a0Any suggestions are welcome\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\u2019s book\u00a0War in Social\u00a0Thought:&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/2015\/10\/30\/war-in-social-thought\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","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\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}