State-phobia today parallels the eighteenth-century phobia about despotism.

Evidence

Well, just as at the end of the eighteenth century there was a criticism of despotism and a phobia about despotism-an ambiguous phobia about despotism-so too today there is a phobia about the state which is perhaps also ambiguous. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 512

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The state-phobia of the postwar period shaped neo-liberal governmental practices in Germany and America — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 35; Eighteenth-century state theory framed statelessness as irrational and insecure — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 26

Broader Connections

• The state-phobia of the postwar period shaped neo-liberal governmental practices in Germany and America #qualifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 35
• Eighteenth-century state theory framed statelessness as irrational and insecure #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 26