Rituals of Conduct and Counter-Conduct
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Corey McCall
- Source
- Foucault Studies, Iss 2110.22439 (2016)
- Subject
- ritual
conduct
counter-conduct
governmentality
veridiction
Philosophy (General)
B1-5802
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1832-5203
This essay provides an account of the role of ritual in governmentality (or the conducting of conduct) through an analysis of key texts during the period roughly from 1973 through 1981. I claim that ritual plays an essential role in Foucault’s analysis of juridical forms and sovereign power as well as conduct and counter-conduct understood as features of governmentality and political rationality.