Collective utility has prevailed over sovereign rights as the axis of modern government

Evidence

Contemporaries were perfectly aware of this heterogeneity. Bentham, Dumont, the Rights ofMan. And it remained perceptible for two centuries, since it has proved impossible to find a genuine coherence and equilibrium between these procedures. Overwhelmingly, and not without some reversals, regulation of the public authorities in t~ of utility prev;U1s over the axiomatic of sovereignty in terms of original rights. Collective utility (rather than collective will) as general axis ofthe art ofgovernment. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 368

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the two competing governmentality models: the axiomatic of sovereignty in original rights versus utility calculus.
• XREF: connects to: Rights-based sovereignty and utility calculus both converge on limiting the individual — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 369; A public authority can build quasi-sovereign autonomy over territory — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 69

Broader Connections

• A public authority can build quasi-sovereign autonomy over territory #complicates (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 69