another dead white guy on militarism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>[no googling, who wrote it?]
>
>"Historians of ideas usually attribute the dream of a perfect society to
>the philosophers and jurists of the eighteenth century; but there was also
>a military dream of society; its fundamental reference was not to the
>state of nature, but to the meticulously subordinated cogs of a machine,
>not to the primal social contract, but to permanent coercions, not to
>fundamental rights, but to indefinitely progressive forms of training, not
>to the general will but to automatic docility... The Napoleonic regime was
>not far off and with it the form of state that was to survive it and, we
>must not forget, the foundations of which were laid not only by jurists,
>but also by soldiers, not only counselors of state, but also junior
>officers, not only the men of the courts, but also the men of the camps.
>The Roman reference that accompanied this formation certainly bears with
>it this double index: citizens and legionnaires, law and maneuvers. While
>jurists or philosophers were seeking in the pact a primal model for the
>construction or reconstruction of the social body, the soldiers and with
>them the technicians of discipline were elaborating procedures for the
>individual and collective coercion of bodies."

The "technicians of discipline" -- Michel Foucault or someone who 
likes Foucault.
-- 
Yoshie

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