Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collge de France, 1975-76Paperback, 1 December 2005

This text is a full transcript of the lectures given by Michel Foucault at the College de France in 1975-76. The main theme of the lectures is the contention that war can be used to analyze power relations. Foucault contends that politics is a continuation of war by other means. Thus, any constitutional theory of sovereignty and right is an attempt to refute the fact that power relations are based upon a relationship of conflict, violence and domination."