tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post2623241832538470769..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Hobbes an institutionalist?Dan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-16314293437369080082009-04-19T01:59:00.000-04:002009-04-19T01:59:00.000-04:00A great post.
Compare Hobbes' model of order as r...A great post.<br /><br />Compare Hobbes' model of order as resulting from institutional, juridical administration and enforcement with any number of alternative frameworks outside of the liberal canon and we'll see that law is only one of many possible social forms. In liberal political thought--Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau especially--the law is referred to as what Foucault calls a "domain of truth," an epistemological-ontological order that legitimates or verifies a particular set of actions. Foucault stands as yet another example of a thinker who (barely, and with his final breaths) began to articulate for the first time in the modern era an extra-juridical concept of the social. Not law, but ethics, attention to the moral qualities of <I>relations</I>, not atomistic individuals colliding in battle.<br /><br />Please keep up the fantastic and diverse writing. Always a pleasure.Brad Burgehttp://bananapeelproject.org/noreply@blogger.com