Author(s)

Cai Ming ¹, Qing Ziqi ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China
² Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia

Corresponding Author

Cai Ming

ABSTRACT

Today, with the continuous development of social productive forces, society continues to form more complex social relations and production relations. Life politics criticism is a kind of life politics based on Foucault's political economy criticism as an interpretation path. This interpretation path inherits Marx's theoretical resources and combines the current characteristics of The Times, and uses the critical paradigm of political economy to excavate the current life politics issues, to achieve the purpose of life politics criticism. As a theoretical paradigm for analyzing social existence, life politics presents us with a new perspective on the formation and operation of the basic principles of modern society. This paper explores the current life politics issues, so as to achieve the purpose of criticizing life politics, in order to enrich the content of Foucault's vital-political theory as a theoretical complement to analysing and understanding the way in which modern society operates, and to explore the contemporary value of historical materialism in this dimension, and to stimulate the criticality of historical materialism.

KEYWORDS

Historical materialism; Life politics; Foucault

CITE THIS PAPER

Cai Ming, Qing Ziqi, An examination of Foucault's life politics by historical materialism. Philosophy Journal (2024) Vol. 3: 14-20. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/phij.2024.030103.

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