The labour of subjectivity : Foucault on biopolitics, economy, critique / Andrea Rossi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossi, Andrea (Research Fellow), author.

Contributor:

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Futures of the archive.

Futures of the archive

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Subjectivity.

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

xiv, 195 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]

Summary:

Michel Foucault defined critique as an exercise in de-subjectivation. To what extent did this claim shape his philosophical practice? What are its theoretical and ethical justifications? Why did Foucault come to view the production of subjectivity as a key site of political and intellectual emancipation in the present? Andrea Rossi pursues such questions in The Labour of Subjectivity. This book re-examines the genealogy of the politics of subjectivity that Foucault began to outline in his lectures at the Collège de France in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Rossi explores Christian confession, raison d'état, biopolitics and bioeconomy as the different technologies by which Western politics has attempted to produce, regulate and give form to the subjectivity of its subjects. Ultimately, he argues that Foucault's critical project can only be comprehended within the context of this historico-political Trajectory, as an attempt to give the extant politics of the self a new horizon. Book jacket.

Contents:

The governmental matrix

Becoming other

Threshold (I): state as government

Through desire

Threshold (II): the dawn of man

The persistence of death

Bioeconomy

The labour of the same

Critique and subjectivity

The analytic of resistance

The subject of critique.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9781783486007

1783486007

9781783486014

1783486015

OCLC:

910856411

Publisher Number:

99965862771