Foucault, Kant, Deleuze, and the problem of political agency

<p>Political agency concerns the transformation of the conditions of social organization through collective action. In order to treat the set of necessary conditions for such agency, I develop a detailed reconstruction of Michel Foucault's political philosophy, placed in relation to the work of Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze. I argue that the key to Foucault's political thought is contained in two crucial but neglected concepts, <em>verticality </em>and<em>transversality,</em> and that the systematic exposition of these concepts yields an account of what must obtain for political agency to be possible, realizable, and sustainable.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Penfield, Christopher S

Contributors dc:contributor

• Daniel Smith
• William McBride
• Christopher Yeomans
• Todd May
• Kevin Thompson

• Philosophy

Repository record dc:identifier

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/534

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:open_access_dissertations-1472