Bezpečnost, teritorium, populace

In opposition to the mechanisms with which rulers attempted to ensure the security of their territory up until the age of classicism, Foucault juxtaposes the technologies of security, or respectively a correlation between them and the population. The terms 'teritorium' and 'population' serve as opposing poles between which his deliberations develop. How did this transition from a sovereignty over territory to the regulation of population come about? What were the effects of this transformation at the level of governmental practices? The emergence of population as an idea and as a reality was not only important at the political level, it also had an impact at the epistemological level. The analysis of security dispositifs related to population gradually led Foucault to emphasize the notion of 'government'. In its traditional sense of public authority or the exercise of sovereignty, it eventually lost weight and came to refer to techniques specific for the management of populations.
The problematic triangle that served as the original research framework was thus replaced by a systematic series of security-population-government. Along with this series, in this cycle of lectures Foucault introduced the notion of 'governmentality', with which he proceeded from the history of security technologies to the genealogy of the modern state.

• Michel Foucault: Bezpečnost, teritorium, populace

  Uvedení knihy Michela Foucaulta Bezpečnost, teritorium, populace: Přednášky na College de France (1977–1978) a následná diskuze Jiřího Růžičky a Pavla Barši. Moderoval Petr Fischer.