The government of life : Foucault, biopolitics, and neoliberalism / edited by Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter ; Francesco Paolo Adorno [and ten others], contributor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lemm, Vanessa, editor of compilation.

Vatter, Miguel, editor of compilation.

Francesco Paolo Adorno, contributor.

Series:

Forms of living.

Forms of Living

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Neoliberalism.

Biopolitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Foucault’s late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary group of Foucault scholars examines his ideas of biopower and biopolitics and their relation to his project of a history of governmentality and to a theory of the subject found in his last courses at the College de France. Many of the chapters engage critically with the Italian theoretical reception of Foucault. At the same time, the originality of this collection consists in the variety of perspectives and traditions of reception brought to bear upon the problematic connections between biopolitics and governmentality established by Foucault’s last works.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Fourth Age of Security

2. The Law of the House hold: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Iranian Revolution

3. The Risks of Security: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Fear

4. A Genealogy of Biopolitics: The Notion of Life in Canguilhem and Foucault

5. Power over Life, Politics of Death: Forms of Resistance to Biopower in Foucault

6. Identity, Nature, Life: Three Biopolitical Deconstructions

7. From Reason of State to Liberalism: The Coup d’État as Form of Government

8. Foucault and Rawls: Government and Public Reason

9. Foucault and Hayek: Republican Law and Liberal Civil Society

10. Parrhesia between East and West: Foucault and Dissidence

11. The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community: Foucault and the Cynics

Notes

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780823255993

0823255999

9780823255979

0823255972

9780823256006

0823256006

9780823261390

0823261395

9780823255986

0823255980

OCLC:

878144594