Government of Life - Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism

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.

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Edited by Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter

Summary

An examination of Foucault’s last thought, centered on his ideas about biopolitics, governmentality, and subjectivity. This volume aims to explain why the politics and policies of neoliberalism are best understood as a “government of life” whose effects and consequences still remain to be fathomed.

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa (EDT)/ Vatter Lemm, Vanessa Vatter Lemm, Miguel E. Vatter
• Assisted by: Vanessa Lemm (Editor), Miguel Vatter (Editor), Miguel E. Vatter (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2014
• EAN: 9780823255979
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-5597-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Forms of Living (FUP); Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works