Foucault and the making of subjects / edited by Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini and Martina Tazzioli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cremonesi, Laura, editor.

Series:

New politics of autonomy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Autonomy (Philosophy).

Subjectivity.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

vi, 194 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016.

Summary:

Michel Foucault's account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a 'subject of' and being 'subject to' political forces. Foucault and the Making of Subjects interrogates the philosophical and political consequences of such a dual definition of the subject, by exploring the processes of subjectivation and objectivation through which subjects are produced. Drawing together well-known scholars of Foucaultian thought and critical theory, alongside a newly translated interview with Foucault himself, this book engages in a serious reconsideration of the notion of 'autonomy' beyond the liberal tradition, connecting it to processes of subjectivation. In the face of the ongoing proliferation of analyses using the notion of subjectivation, this book will retrace Foucault's reflections on it and interrogate the current theoretical and political implications of a series of approaches that mobilize the Foucaultian understanding of the subject in relation to truth and power. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Foucault, the Iranian Uprising and the Constitution of a Collective Subjectivity / Laura Cremonesi Cremonesi, Laura, Orazio Irrera Irrera, Orazio, Daniele Lorenzini Lorenzini, Daniele, Martina Tazzioli Tazzioli, Martina 11

2 There Can't Be Societies without Uprisings / Michel Foucault Foucault, Michel, Farès Sassine Sassine, Farès 25

Part I Productions of Subjectivity 53

3 From Subjection to Subjectivation: Michel Foucault and the History of Sexuality / Arnold I. Davidson Davidson, Arnold I. 55

4 Foucault, Regimes of Truth and the Making of the Subject / Daniele Lorenzini Lorenzini, Daniele 63

5 Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Case of Sexual Avowal / Judith Butler Butler, Judith 77

Part II Autonomy, Critique and the Norms 95

6 Philosophy, Critique and the Present: The Question of Autonomy in Michel Foucault's Thought / Laura Cremonesi Cremonesi, Laura 97

7 Foucault and the Refusal of Ideology / Orazio Irrera Irrera, Orazio 111

8 Becoming a Subject in Relation to Norms / Guillaume le Blanc Blanc, Guillaume le 129

Part III The Power Over and of Governed Subjects 137

9 The Government of Desire / Miguel de Reistegui Reistegui, Miguel de 139

10 Between Politics and Ethics: The Question of Subjcctivation / Judith Revel Revel, Judith 163

11 Foucault and the Irreducible to the Population: The Mob, the Plebs and Troubling Subjectivities in Excess / Martina Tazzioli Tazzioli, Martina 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Foucault and the making of subjects

ISBN:

9781786601056

9781786601049

1786601044

1786601052

OCLC:

949986944

Publisher Number:

99970224578