Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Beyond

Offers a comprehensive account of Foucault's relationship to neoliberalism that is driven not by polemics but a careful reading of Foucault's texts and political positions.

List of contents

·Introduction: Stephen Sawyer and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
·Chapter 1: Michael C. Behrent, Neoliberalism: The Highest Stage of Anti-Humanism?
·Chapter 2: Serge Audier, Is Foucault a Good Guide for Understanding, Critiquing and Combatting Neoliberalism?
·Chapter 3: Daniel Zamora, Finding a "Left Governmentality": Foucault's Last Decade
·Chapter 4: Aner Barzilay, Rereading the Birth of Biopolitics in Light of Foucault's Early Reading of Marx
·Chapter 5: Dotan Leshem, Foucault, Genealogy, Critique
·Chapter 6: Duncan Kelly, Michel Foucault on Phobie d'État and Neoliberalism
·Chapter 7: Claudia Castiglioni, Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Iranian Revolution
·Chapter 8: Luca Paltrinieri, Neoliberal Selves: Human Capital Between Bourdieu and Foucault
·Chapter 9: Judith Revel, Not Fostering Life, and Leaving to Die

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Edited by Stephen W. Sawyer and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Summary

Offers a comprehensive account of Foucault's relationship to neoliberalism that is driven not by polemics but a careful reading of Foucault's texts and political positions.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen W. Sawyer, Stephen W. Steinmetz-Jenkins Sawyer
• Assisted by: Stephen W. Sawyer (Editor), Sawyer Stephen W. (Editor), Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781786603760
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-376-0
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies