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On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics

Author : Brent Pickett
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109755
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics written by Brent Pickett and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensitive to the discontinuities in Foucault's thought, neither critical nor slavishly devotional, On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics demonstrates how Foucault is relevant for contemporary democratic theory. Beginning with a discussion of the interrelated ideas of power and resistance, Brent Pickett provides an interpretation of Foucault's political philosophy, including a comprehensive overview of the reasons for various conflicting interpretations, and then explores how well the different "Foucaults" can be used in progressive politics. Accessible and insightful, On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics is valuable for specialists in Foucault and for students of postmodern and democratic theory alike.

On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics

Author : Brent Pickett
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739114612
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics written by Brent Pickett and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics provides an accessible interpretation of Foucault's political philosophy, demonstrating how Foucault is relevant for contemporary democratic theory. Brent Pickett lays out an overview of Foucault's politics, including a comprehensive overview of the reasons for various conflicting interpretations, and then explores how well the different 'Foucaults' can be used in progressive politics and democratic theory.

Foucault and the Politics of Rights

Author : Ben Golder
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804796513
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Foucault and the Politics of Rights written by Ben Golder and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

Author : Leonard Lawlor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867067
Total Pages : 1318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon written by Leonard Lawlor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, political science and history. Together, they shed light on concepts key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his work today.

Discipline and Punish

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307819299
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Discipline and Punish written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

For Foucault

Author : Mark G. E. Kelly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438467621
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book For Foucault written by Mark G. E. Kelly and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Government of Life

Author : Vanessa Lemm
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823255999
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Government of Life written by Vanessa Lemm and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-04-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Passion of Michel Foucault

Author : James Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674001572
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Passion of Michel Foucault written by James Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive new research and a bold interpretation of the man and his texts, The Passion of Michel Foucault is a startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers. It chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and professional odyssey, from his early interest in dreams to his final preoccupation with sexuality and the nature of personal identity.

Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault

Author : Susan Hekman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271042046
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault written by Susan Hekman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the possibilities, however, Foucault's approach has raised serious questions about an equally crucial area of feminist thought - politics. Some feminist critics of Foucault have argued that his deconstruction of the concept "woman" also deconstructs the possibility of a feminist politics. Several essays explore the implications of this deconstruction for feminist politics and suggest that a Foucauldian feminist politics is not viable.

Power/Knowledge

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 039473954X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Power/Knowledge written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1980-11-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them. Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling. For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives" Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds.

Foucault in Iran

Author : Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452950563
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Foucault in Iran written by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978–1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that the critics are wrong. He declares that Foucault recognized that Iranians were at a threshold and were considering if it were possible to think of dignity, justice, and liberty outside the cognitive maps and principles of the European Enlightenment. Foucault in Iran centers not only on the significance of the great thinker’s writings on the revolution but also on the profound mark the event left on his later lectures on ethics, spirituality, and fearless speech. Contemporary events since 9/11, the War on Terror, and the Arab Uprisings have made Foucault’s essays on the Iranian Revolution more relevant than ever. Ghamari-Tabrizi illustrates how Foucault saw in the revolution an instance of his antiteleological philosophy: here was an event that did not fit into the normative progressive discourses of history. What attracted him to the Iranian Revolution was precisely its ambiguity. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this interdisciplinary work will spark a lively debate in its insistence that what informed Foucault’s writing was not an effort to understand Islamism but, rather, his conviction that Enlightenment rationality has not closed the gate of unknown possibilities for human societies.

The Foucault Effect

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226080451
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Foucault Effect written by Michel Foucault and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-07-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures on rationalities of government, this work examines the art or activity of government and the different ways in which it has been made thinkable and practicable. There are also contributions of other scholars exploring modern manifestations of government.

After Foucault

Author : Lisa Downing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1107140498
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book After Foucault written by Lisa Downing and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributes to Foucauldian scholarship by contextualizing Foucault's key concepts and identifying current and emerging applications of his work.

Active Intolerance

Author : Perry Zurn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137510676
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Active Intolerance written by Perry Zurn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.

Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes

Author : Chloë Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367664992
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes written by Chloë Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together Foucault's writings on crime and delinquency, on the one hand, and sexuality, on the other, to argue for an anti-carceral feminist Foucauldian approach to sex crimes. The author expands on Foucault's writings through intersectional explorations of the critical race, decolonial, critical disability, queer and critical trans studies literatures on the prison that have emerged since the publication of Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality. Drawing on Foucault's insights from his genealogical period, the book argues that those labeled as sex offenders will today be constructed to re-offend twice over, once in virtue of the delinquency with which they are inculcated through criminological discourses and in the criminal punishment system, and second in virtue of the manners in which their sexual offense is taken up as an identity through psychological and sexological discourses. The book includes a discussion of non-retributive responses to crime, including preventative, redistributive, restorative, and transformative justice. It concludes with two appendixes: the original 19th-century medico-legal report on Charles Jouy and its English translation by the author. Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes will be of interest to feminist philosophers, Continental philosophers, Women's and Gender Studies scholars, social and political theorists, as well as social scientists and social justice activists.

Drugs Politics

Author : Maziyar Ghiabi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108475450
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Drugs Politics written by Maziyar Ghiabi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers new and cutting-edge research on the role of drugs in Iranian society and government. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Biopower

Author : Vernon W. Cisney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622676X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Biopower written by Vernon W. Cisney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, or destroying them.” With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of biopower has enabled while at the same time pinpointing their most important shared resonances. Situating biopower as a radical alternative to traditional conceptions of power—what Foucault called “sovereign power”—the contributors examine a host of matters centered on life, the body, and the subject as a living citizen. Altogether, they pay testament to the lasting relevance of biopower in some of our most important contemporary debates on issues ranging from health care rights to immigration laws, HIV prevention discourse, genomics medicine, and many other topics.