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Sovereign and Plebs: Michel Foucault Meets Carl Schmitt

Despite the fact that the point of departure of Michel Foucault's analysis of power was the radical exclusion of sovereignty,¹ in some respects it resembles that of Carl Schmitt. The intellectual kinship of these two thinkers, however, is not limited to the question of modernity—the form of politics that replaces the sovereign with an impersonal machine (Panopticon and the uniform system of norms) or modern metaphysics that replaces transcendence (God and Law) and swears by immanence (People and Norm). Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, what connects the thinker most hostile to sovereignty (Foucault) and the one who always insisted on...