Abstract

In “Society Must Be Defended” Foucault argues that a discourse of war has existed alongside and in relation to modern accounts of history and politics. It is a discourse that understands the very fabric of both history and politics to be war. This is not the discourse of the wars that princes, kings and states have intermittently waged against each other, interrupting the peaceable aspirations of modern political thought. Rather, it is a historically marginal discourse that, explained by Foucault through a reversal of Clausewitz, understands politics to be the continuation of war by other means (Foucault, 2003b: p. 48). It is a discourse of politics as war.

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