Foucault with Marx / Jacques Bidet ; translated by Steven Corcoran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bidet, Jacques, author.

Contributor:

Corcoran, Steve, translator.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Criticism and interpretation.

Foucault, Michel.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883--Criticism and interpretation.

Marx, Karl.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Capitalism.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xv, 272 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Zed Books Ltd, 2016.

Summary:

With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world's two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, Bidet examines Marxian and Foucauldian criticisms of capitalist modernity. For Marx, the intersection between capital and the market is crucial, while for Foucault, the organizational aspects of capital are what really matter. According to Marx, the ruling class is identified with property; with Foucault, it is the managers who hold power and knowledge that rule. Bidet identifies these two sides of capitalist modernity as 'market' and 'organization,' showing that each leads to specific forms of social conflict; against exploitation and austerity, over wages and pensions on the one hand, and against forms of 'medical' and work-based discipline, control of bodies and prisons on the other. Bidet's impetus and clarity however serve a greater purpose: uniting two souls of critical social theory, in order to overcome what has become an age-long separation between the 'old left' and the 'new social movements.'

Contents:

Note on the translation

Abbreviations. Introduction: why unite Marx and Foucault, and how? 1 The Marx/Foucault difference: discipline and governtality : Disciplinary society/class society: surveillance and punishment : Foucault's discovery of a new social order

Disciplines and class relations

Analogical table Foucault/Marx. Civil society against class state: the College de France lectures of 1977-79 : Praise versus critique of the political economy?

The Foucauldian grand narrative and theneoliberal question

Foucault's grand tableau: civil society and the arts of governing. 2 Property-power and knowledge-power : Foucault explores the "pole" that Marx left in a grey zone : Foucault discerns knowledge-power alongside proprietor-power

Why Marx's theory is missing a "pole." Foucault, theoretician of the knowledge-power of "competent-elites" : "The history of truth:" the true, the just and the authentic

The truths of government

Refounding the Marxian project to admit Foucault. Foucault, historian and critic of "copmetent-elites" : The historical conditions of modern "biopolitics"

The Foucauldian critique of knowledge-power: a politics. 3 Marxian structuralism and Foucauldian nominalism? : Micro-relations of power and macro-relationships of class : The Foucauldian concept of power and the marxian concept of class

The micro-macrological articulation of class

The micro-macrological articulation of the state. Apparatuses of power versus class structures : Foucault: strategies in relation to "apparatuses of power"

Marx: strategies in relation to "class structures." Shortcomings and relevance of Marx and Foucault : Class, sex, race: a Foucauldian triptych?

War as an "analyser of society"

"Structure" or "system?" Foucault, Habermas and others. 4 Marx's "capitalism" and Foucault's "liberalism" : The historical productivity of "capitalism" : The political contradiction of capitalism

The productive contradictions of capitalism. The history of "liberalism" : "Discipline" as productive of utility-docility

Liberalism as productive of utility-freedom

Liberalism as relation beetween governors and the governed

"Governmentality" as against self-government. Elements of conclusion: a strategy from below : Marx's strategies

Foucault's strategies

Provocation and interpellation

Strategy and hegemony

The dispersed order of strategy from below

Beyond class horizons. References

Index.

Notes:

Translated from French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1783605375

9781783605378

OCLC:

919187010