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My treatment of what I propose to call Foucault’s theory of power is structured around a distinction first advanced with respect to justice (Rawls 1972: 5-6) and later applied to power (Lukes 1974: 26-27). This is the distinction betweenthe conceptandconceptionsof power, wherethe conceptof power refers to the basic core or primitive notion of power lying behind all (or most) talk of power in the social sciences and philosophy, a basic core that is developed or fleshed out by different authors into distinct theoretical conceptions.
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Kusch, M. (1991). The Concept of Power. In: Foucault’s Strata and Fields. Synthese Library, vol 218. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3540-5_9
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