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1 online resource (164 pages) |
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List of endorsers; Title page; Copyright page; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1: Foucault and New Philosophy: Why Foucault Endorsed André Glucksmann's The Master Thinkers; Notes; 2: Liberalism without Humanism: Michel Foucault and the Free-Market Creed, 1976-1979; The 1970s watershed: the discreet charm of economic liberalism; 1976-1978: revising the "disciplinary hypothesis"; The 1979 course: antihumanist liberalism and the critique of socialism; Conclusion; Notes; 3: Foucault, the Excluded, and the Neoliberal Erosion of the State; In search of a "new plebeian." |
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From the redistribution of wealth to the redistribution of powerFighting exclusion, not inequality; The neoliberal erosion of the state; Neoliberalism and the negative tax as emancipation; Conclusion; Notes; 4: Foucault, Ewald, Neoliberalism, and the Left; The case of Ewald and the received view of Foucault's governmentality lectures; Ewald meets Becker at the University of Chicago; Empirical deficits in Foucault's governmentality lectures; Foucault on the neoliberal utopia; Foucault beyond Foucault; Notes; 5: Bourdieu, Foucault, and the Penal State in the Neoliberal Era |
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Bourdieu and the bolstering of the Right hand of the stateFoucault and the perfusion of "the carceral"; The neoliberal state and the double regulation of poverty; Notes; 6: The Unfulfilled Promises of the Late Foucault and Foucauldian "Governmentality Studies"; Foucault's mediation of the techniques of domination and of the self; The enigmatic content of the concept of governmentality; Eliminating the inner contradictions of neoliberal ideology; A problematic equation of subjectivation and subjection; Toward an ideology-theoretical reinterpretation of governmentality studies; Notes |
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7: Michel Foucault and the Spiritualization of PhilosophySartre and the spiritualization of philosophy; Sartre and Foucault; Foucault vs. Sartre; Michel Foucault and the spiritualization of philosophy; Notes; 8: The Great Rage of Facts; Notes; Conclusion: The Strange Failure (and Peculiar Success) of Foucault's Project; Notes; Index; End User License Agreement |
| Summary |
Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault was not a direct witness of these years, his work on neoliberalism is nonetheless prescient: the question of liberalism occupies an important place in his last works. Since his death, Foucault's conceptual apparatus has acquired a central, even dominant position for a substantial segment of the world's intellectual left. However, as the contributions to this volume demonstrate, Foucault's attitude towards neoliberalism was at least equivocal. Far from leading an intellectual struggle against free market orthodoxy, Foucault seems in many ways to endorse it. How is one to understand his radical critique of the welfare state, understood as an instrument of biopower' Or his support for the pandering anti-Marxism of the so-called 'new philosophers'' Is it possible that Foucault was seduced by neoliberalism' This question is not merely of biographical interest: it forces us to confront more generally the mutations of the left since May 1968, the disillusionment of the years that followed and the profound transformations in the French intellectual field over the past thirty years. To understand the 1980s and the neoliberal triumph is to explore the most ambiguous corners of the intellectual left through one of its most important figures |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
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| SUBJECT |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast |
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Neoliberalism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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FICTION -- General.
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Neoliberalism
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Electronic book
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Behrent, Michael C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781509501809 |
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1509501800 |
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