The Labour of Subjectivity - Foucault on Biopolitics, Economy, Critique

This book offers a reassessment of Foucault's critical work in the context of the modern economy of subjectivation.

List of contents

List of Abbreviations / Introduction / Part I: The Governmental Matrix / 1. Becoming Other / 2. Threshold (I): State as Government / 3. Through Desire / 4. Threshold (II): The Dawn of Man/ 5. The Persistence of Death / 6. Bioeconomy / 7. The Labour of the 'Same' / Part II: Critique and Subjectivity / 8. The Analytic of Resistance / 9. The Subject of Critique / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Andrea Rossi is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Rossi, Rossi Andrea
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2015
• EAN: 9781783486007
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-600-7
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 237 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Key Concepts in Philosophy; Futures of the Archive
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism