Foucault's discipline : the politics of subjectivity / John S. Ransom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ransom, John S.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Political and social views.

Foucault, Michel.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Intersubjectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Foucault's Discipline, John S. Ransom extracts a distinctive vision of the political world-and oppositional possibilities within it-from the welter of disparate topics and projects Michel Foucault pursued over his lifetime. Uniquely, Ransom presents Foucault as a political theorist in the tradition of Weber and Nietzsche, and specifically examines Foucault's work in relation to the political tradition of liberalism and the Frankfurt School. By concentrating primarily on Discipline and Punish and the later Foucauldian texts, Ransom provides a fresh interpretation of this controversial philos

Contents:

Introduction: Rethinking "Critique"

I Confronting New Forms of Power

II Disciplines and the Individual

III Governmentality and Population

IV Genealogy in the Disciplinary Age

V The "Plebeian Aspect"

VI Politics, Norms, and the Self

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-222) and index.

ISBN:

9786612904387

9781282904385

1282904388

9780822382065

0822382067

OCLC:

850214109