Foucault and Neoliberalism (eBook)
152 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-5095-0180-9 (ISBN)
However, as the contributions to this volume demonstrate, Foucault's attitude towards neoliberalism was at least equivocal. Far from leading an intellectual struggle against free market orthodoxy, Foucault seems in many ways to endorse it. How is one to understand his radical critique of the welfare state, understood as an instrument of biopower? Or his support for the pandering anti-Marxism of the so-called new philosophers ? Is it possible that Foucault was seduced by neoliberalism?
This question is not merely of biographical interest: it forces us to confront more generally the mutations of the left since May 1968, the disillusionment of the years that followed and the profound transformations in the French intellectual field over the past thirty years. To understand the 1980s and the neoliberal triumph is to explore the most ambiguous corners of the intellectual left through one of its most important figures.
DANIEL ZAMORA is a PhD candidate at the Free University of Brussels and his work on Foucault has been widely published. MICHAEL C. BEHRENT is Associate Professor at Appalachian State University.
List of endorsers
Title page
Copyright page
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Foucault and New Philosophy: Why Foucault Endorsed André Glucksmann's The Master Thinkers
2: Liberalism without Humanism: Michel Foucault and the Free-Market Creed, 1976-1979
3: Foucault, the Excluded, and the Neoliberal Erosion of the State
4: Foucault, Ewald, Neoliberalism, and the Left
5: Bourdieu, Foucault, and the Penal State in the Neoliberal Era
6: The Unfulfilled Promises of the Late Foucault and Foucauldian "Governmentality Studies"
7: Michel Foucault and the Spiritualization of Philosophy
8: The Great Rage of Facts
Conclusion: The Strange Failure (and Peculiar Success) of Foucault's Project
Notes
Index
End User License Agreement
"In recent years, Michel Foucault has garnered a reputation as a fierce critic of the neoliberal order, especially through his analyses of micro-politics and governmentality. But the essays in this terrific collection raise important questions about Foucault?s relation to neoliberalism. They show that Foucault himself was quite sympathetic to some of its core elements, and, more importantly, that his theory has in many ways diluted the intellectual resources that might enable more successful resistance to it. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in critical social theory and in contemporary political culture."
Vivek Chibber, New York University
?Michel Foucault was a far-sighted theorist, but also a creature of his time. This superlative collection moves beyond early polemics in order to force reflection on the uses and limits of the great philosopher?s now celebrated investigation of neoliberalism ? in part by providing a reminder of how it fit in the various contexts of French intellectual life in the 1970s that informed it. Michael Behrent and Daniel Zamora deserve credit for offering precautions, rather than ?burning? Foucault, as the next stage of his reception unfolds.?
Samuel Moyn, Harvard University
?The antistatist turn of much of the global left has disturbing but largely unexamined affinities with neoliberalism. Michel Foucault, for all his greatness, is a key figure in this turn. This collection is a stimulating exploration of those affinities, and, to put it provocatively, but not inaccurately, Foucault's commonalities with the likes of Gary Becker and Friedrich Hayek. This excellent book will annoy many, but it has the potential, for those with sufficiently open minds, of being a productive annoyance.?
Doug Henwood, The Nation
?Foucault and Neoliberalism has already begun to launch a crucial historical and political debate. Its critique and historical contextualization of Foucault?s late work open up new perspectives on the rise of neoliberalism in France and the general evolution of the intellectual left since the 1980s. From the retreat of class analysis to the triumph both of identity politics and of a conception of social justice limited to equality of opportunity, Foucault and Neoliberalism helps us first to understand and then to imagine an alternative to the political dead end of the contemporary left.?
Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.1.2016 |
---|---|
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Schlagworte | 20th Century Philosophy • Continental Philosophy • Kontinentalphilosophie • Philosophie • Philosophie des 20. Jhd. • Philosophy |
ISBN-10 | 1-5095-0180-0 / 1509501800 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-0180-9 / 9781509501809 |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Größe: 353 KB
Kopierschutz: Adobe-DRM
Adobe-DRM ist ein Kopierschutz, der das eBook vor Mißbrauch schützen soll. Dabei wird das eBook bereits beim Download auf Ihre persönliche Adobe-ID autorisiert. Lesen können Sie das eBook dann nur auf den Geräten, welche ebenfalls auf Ihre Adobe-ID registriert sind.
Details zum Adobe-DRM
Dateiformat: EPUB (Electronic Publication)
EPUB ist ein offener Standard für eBooks und eignet sich besonders zur Darstellung von Belletristik und Sachbüchern. Der Fließtext wird dynamisch an die Display- und Schriftgröße angepasst. Auch für mobile Lesegeräte ist EPUB daher gut geeignet.
Systemvoraussetzungen:
PC/Mac: Mit einem PC oder Mac können Sie dieses eBook lesen. Sie benötigen eine
eReader: Dieses eBook kann mit (fast) allen eBook-Readern gelesen werden. Mit dem amazon-Kindle ist es aber nicht kompatibel.
Smartphone/Tablet: Egal ob Apple oder Android, dieses eBook können Sie lesen. Sie benötigen eine
Geräteliste und zusätzliche Hinweise
Buying eBooks from abroad
For tax law reasons we can sell eBooks just within Germany and Switzerland. Regrettably we cannot fulfill eBook-orders from other countries.
aus dem Bereich