Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications since 1984

Jeffrey Nealon

Published by Stanford University Press 2008

Foucault Beyond Foucault

Power and Its Intensifications since 1984

Jeffrey Nealon

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804768443

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This book retraces power's intensification in Foucault in ways that both allow us to reread Foucault's own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that that have taken place since his death in 1984.

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Jeffrey T. Nealon is Professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction (1993), Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity (1998), and The Theory Toolbox (2003).

Reviews

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:
"In his slim volume on Foucault, [Nealon] has offered a fascinating interpretation of Foucault's work, one that brings to light previous neglected elements of his thought. Although the stated motivation for Nealon's discussion is to counter the current interpretation of Foucault's ethical works, the result is one of the most interesting interpretations of Foucault to emerge in many years."

Gregg Lambert:
"Foucault Beyond Foucault is the first major renovation of the critical representation of Foucault's system in the past twenty years. Jeffrey Nealon successfully challenges the critical prejudices and assumptions that have defined Foucault's legacy, particularly in the North American academy, and stakes out new terrain by productively synthesizing recent developments in political and economic theory with Foucault's own analysis of power and subjectivity in the age of "bio-power." In fact, this is the first book that manages to successfully explain the concept itself, a concept everyone is talking about, though no one seems to understand."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Foucault Today Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Foucault Beyond Foucault Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Chapter 2. Once More, with Intensity: Foucault’s History of Power Revisited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Chapter 3. Genealogies of Capitalism: Foucault, with Deleuze and Jameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Chapter 4. Foucault’s Infamous Ethics; or, Biopower, Globalization, and Ethical Scarcity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 5. Resisting, Foucault Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 152

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Published: November 12, 2007
ISBN: 9780804768443