Thesis Abstract and Dissertation Abstracts

This thesis seeks to argue that governance is the primary concern of human individuals and the collective societies in the Western liberal democracies. From the perspectives of governance, this project illustrates the subjective existence of peoples and their relations with one another, which include: the way we care of ourselves, relate to the other individuals, relate to the other societies and cultures, relate to the 'other sex'; and the exercises of political power, economic power, institutional power, expert power, technical power, cognitive power to govern the self and others. This venture is an engagement that exploits Foucault and Habermas's intellectual practices with the assistance of Hunt and Wickham, and Rose's perspective on governance to construct A Communicative Agonistic Theory of Governance by deploying concepts such as: genealogy, agonism, the care of the self, critical ethos of the Enlightenment and communicative action.

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Submission Details: Thesis Abstract submitted by Karim Hasan from Canada on 27-Jul-2005 00:18.
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Karim Hasan Contact Details: Email: khabdull@connect.carleton.ca