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.

Info autore

Miguel Vatter is Professor of Political Science at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the editor of Crediting God: Religion and Sovereignty in the Age of Global Capitalism (New York, 2010) and author of The Republic of the Living: Affirmative Biopolitics and Civil Society (New York, 2014). He is a founding member of the biopolitics research network BioPolitica.cl.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Vanessa (EDT)/ Vatter Lemm, Vanessa Vatter Lemm, Miguel E. Vatter
• Con la collaborazione di: Vanessa Lemm (Editore), Miguel Vatter (Editore), Miguel E. Vatter (Editore)
• Editore: Fordham University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.04.2014
• EAN: 9780823255962
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-5596-2
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Forms of Living (FUP); Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie