Economic and juridical-political thought are heterogeneous and incompatible worlds

Evidence

The problematic of the economy is by no means the logical completion of the great problematic of sovereignty through which eighteenth century juridical-political thought stroveto show how, by starting from individual subjects of natural right, one could arrive at the constitution of a political unity defined by the existence ofan individual or collective sovereign who is the holder of Part of the totality of these individual rights and at the same time the principle of their limitation. The economic problematic, the problematic of economic interest, is governed by a completely different configuration, by a completely different logic, type of reasoning, and rationality. In fact, from the eighteenth century the political-juridical world and the economic world appear as heterogeneous and incompatible worlds. The idea of an economic-juridical science is strictly impossible and what is more it has never in fact been constituted. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1454

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economics, philosophy, and politics must be mutually translatable within one worldview — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1430; Economics is lateral to governing, not its internal rationality — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1467; Economic liberalism defines the political, collapsing the distinction between them — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 100 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Economics, philosophy, and politics must be mutually translatable within one worldview #contradicts (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1430