Resistance: An Arendtian Reading of Solidarity and Friendship in Foucault

Recent scholarship has firmly established the similarities between Arendt and Foucault, in particular with regard to dangers of late-modern social processes. Yet, few have compared their accounts resistance. This paper argues that although Foucault offers more comprehensive account, it omits encounter other as unique unfathomable, which is central Arendt’s. omission particularly striking given authors’ shared belief danger ‘the social’ ‘governmentality’ lies atomizing individuals barring development a singular style being, allusion friendship solidarity sites resistance.
 Drawing on Arendt, I show how restricts his thematization reflexive praxis subject her own limits, argue instead for relational dimension start by reconstructing converging analysis biological racism. then continue discussion resistance she develops response Shoah. More specifically, provides concept draw extend Foucault’s transnational among governed fighting rights vis-à-vis governments; context interrogation LGBT-movement.