@book{2026:jiang:craft_of_s,
title = {Craft of Soul: The Generation of Sovereignty in the State Theory of the Later Plato},
year = {2026},
note = {This book reconstructs an ancient theory of power and applies it to
contemporary debates on sovereignty. It begins by reconstructing
techne as a form of strategic power-knowledge through an examination
of Archaic and Classical Greek texts. It then analyses its political
manifestation, politike techne, which Socrates describes as ‚the
craft of the soul‘. In Plato’s later thought, this craft is
directed toward the education and normalisation of individual souls.
Finally, politike techne, early modern reason of state, and
Guantánamo Bay are examined as distinct paradigms of the generation
of sovereignty.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Tectum},
address = {Baden-Baden},
series = {Young Academics: Philosophie},
volume = {10},
author = {Jiang, Jibiao}
}