Foucault's Politics of Philosophy

Foucault's Politics of Philosophy
Author: Sandro Chignola
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-07-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351724142

Oriented around the theme of a ‘politics of philosophy’, this book tracks the phases in which Foucault’s genealogy of power, law, and subjectivity was reorganized during the 14 years of his teaching at the College de France, as his focus shifted from sovereignty to governance. This theme, Sandro Chignola argues here, is the key to understanding four features of Foucault’s work over this period. First, it foregrounds its immediate political character. Second, it demonstrates that Foucault’s "Greek trip" also aims at a politics of the subject that is able to face the processes of the governmentalization of power. Third, it makes clear that the idea of the "government of the self" is – drawing on an ethics of intellectual responsibility that is Weberian in origin – an answer to the processes that, within neoliberal governance, produce the subject as an individual (as a consumer, a market agent, an entrepreneur, and so on). Fourth, the theme of a ‘politics of philosophy’ implies that Foucault’s research was never simply scholarly or neutral; but rather was characterized by a specific political position. Against recent interpretations that risk turning Foucault into a scholar, here then Foucault is re-presented as a key figure for jurisprudential and political-philosophical research.

The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault

The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
Author: Mark G.E. Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2010-06-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135851719

This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Foucault’s political and philosophical thought across his career, arguing that Foucault had a consistent but ever-growing political and philosophical viewpoint.

The Philosophy of Foucault

The Philosophy of Foucault
Author: Todd May
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317493850

Michel Foucault's historical and philosophical investigations have gone through many phases: the archaeological, the genealogical, and the ethical among them. What remains constant, however, is the question that motivates them: who are we? Todd May follows Foucault's itinerary from his early history of madness to his posthumously published College de France lectures and shows how the question of who we are shifts and changes but remains constantly at or just below the surface of his writings. By approaching Foucault's work in this way, May is able to offer readers an engaging and illuminating way to understand Foucault. Each of Foucault's key works - "Madness and Civilization," "The Archaeology of Knowledge," "The Order of Things," "Discipline and Punish" and the multi-volume "History of Sexuality" - are examined in detail and situated in an historical context that makes effective use of comparisons with other thinkers such as Freud, Nietzsche and Sartre. Throughout this book May strikes a balance between sympathetic presentation and criticism of Foucault's ideas and in so doing exposes Foucault's contributions of lasting value. "The Philosophy of Foucault" is an accessible and stimulating introduction to one of the most popular and influential thinkers of recent years and will be welcomed by students studying Foucault as part of politics, sociology, history and philosophy courses.

Foucault and the Political

Foucault and the Political
Author: Jon Simons
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415100666

Introductory study of Michel Foucault as a political thinker.

Foucault and the Politics of Rights

Foucault and the Politics of Rights
Author: Ben Golder
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2015-10-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0804796513

This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic of the liberal discourse of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976 onward, he makes increasing appeals to rights in his philosophical writings, political statements, interviews, and journalism. He not only defends their importance; he argues for rights new and as-yet-unrecognized. Does Foucault simply revise his former positions and endorse a liberal politics of rights? Ben Golder proposes an answer to this puzzle, which is that Foucault approaches rights in a spirit of creative and critical appropriation. He uses rights strategically for a range of political purposes that cannot be reduced to a simple endorsement of political liberalism. Golder develops this interpretation of Foucault's work while analyzing its shortcomings and relating it to the approaches taken by a series of current thinkers also engaged in considering the place of rights in contemporary politics, including Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière.

Foucault, Politics, and Violence

Foucault, Politics, and Violence
Author: Johanna Oksala
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2012
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810128020

The politicization of ontology -- Foundational violence -- Dangerous animals -- The politics of gendered violence -- Political life -- The management of state violence -- The political ontology of neoliberalism -- Violence and neoliberal governmentality -- Terror and political spirituality.

For Foucault

For Foucault
Author: Mark G. E. Kelly
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438467621

This book comprises a series of staged confrontations between the thought of Michel Foucault and a cast of other figures in European and Anglophone political philosophy, including Marx, Lenin, Althusser, Deleuze, Rorty, Honneth, and Geuss. Focusing on the status of normativity in their thought, Mark G. E. Kelly explains how Foucault's position in relation to political theory is different, and, over the course of the book, describes a distinctive Foucauldian stance in political thought that is maximally anti-normative, anti-theoretical, and anti-political. For Foucault aims to undermine attempts to discern the appropriate form of political action, instead putting forward a rigorously critical program for a political theory that lacks any moralizing or totalizing dimension, and serves only to side with resistance against power, and never with power itself. Looking at attempts to think radically about politics from Marx to the present day, Kelly traces a novel history of political thought as a trend of attempts to overcome the constraints of normativity, theoreticism, and subordination to public policy. He concludes by assessing and rejecting recent attempts to reclaim Foucault for a form of normative politics by associating him with neoliberalism.

Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom

Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom
Author: Thomas L. Dumm
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0742521397

This edition of a 1995 book (Sage Publications) contains a new introduction by the series editor and a new preface. Readers familiar with Foucault's work will appreciate the difficulty in critically studying its arresting paradoxical nature. Dumm (political science, Amherst College) negotiates the problem by creating a thematic framework--the idea of being "free" in a modern Western capitalist democracy--and examining it through a Foucaultian lens. He focuses on the politics of freedom, negative freedom, the disciplinary society, ethics, seduction, governments, and provides an enlightening companion to Foucault's postmodern philosophy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Foucault and Politics

Foucault and Politics
Author: Mark G. E. Kelly
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-11-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748676872

Critically explains Michel Foucault's thought: the political implications of each phase of his work, how his thought has been used in the political sphere and the importance of his work for politics today.

The Politics of Truth, New Edition

The Politics of Truth, New Edition
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2007-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Two hundred years later, Michel Foucault wrote a response to Kant's initial essay, positioning Kant as the initiator of the discourse and critique of modernity.