The state-phobia of the postwar period shaped neo-liberal governmental practices in Germany and America

Evidence

Phobia 0/the state. rv Queshons 0/method: sense and stakes 0/the brackehng o/J0/a theory 0/the state in the analysis 0/ mechanzsms 0/jJower. rv Neo:“ltheral gove17lmenfalprachces: German liberalismfrom 1948 to 1962; Amencan neo-liberalism. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 35

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The methodological bracketing of a theory of the state — analyzing mechanisms of power without presupposing the state’s centrality — is a paradigm-shifting move central to the whole Foucauldian research program.
• XREF: connects to: American occupation policy and funding drove West German empirical sociology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1865; State-phobia today parallels the eighteenth-century phobia about despotism. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 512; German ordoliberalism inverted the classical liberal problem of limiting the state — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 560 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• German ordoliberalism inverted the classical liberal problem of limiting the state #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 560
• German ordoliberalism combined a strong-state Ordnungspolitik with sociocultural individualism and postwar integrationism #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 515