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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462716003321

Titolo

Re-reading Foucault : on law, power and rights / / edited by Ben Golder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-09456-5

1-283-84603-9

1-136-20796-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GolderBen

Disciplina

340/.1

Soggetti

Law - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction Re-reading Foucault on law, power and rights; PART 1 Law, judgment and the juridical; 1 Expelled questions: Foucault, the Left and the law; 2 Foucault's other law; 3 Encounters with juridical assemblages: reflections on Foucault, law and the juridical; 4 Law, literature, morality: Michel Foucault and the problem of judgment; PART 2 Sovereignty, surveillance, biopolitics; 5 Sovereignty by acquisition at the Cape: Foucault, Hobbes and de Mist

6 The status of the gaze in surveillance societies7 The birth of biopolitical justice; PART 3 Rights, counter-conduct, revolution?; 8 Michel Foucault and the question of right; 9 Historical normativity and the basis of rights; 10 Is revolution desirable?: Michel Foucault on revolution, neoliberalism and rights; 11 Human rights as technologies of the self: creating the European governmentable subject of rights; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Law, Rights and Power: Re-Reading Foucault is the first collection in English to fully address the relevance of Foucault's thought for law. Michel Foucault is the best known and most cited of the late twentieth-century's 'theory' academics. His work continues to animate a range of different critical work across intellectual disciplines in the arts,



humanities and social sciences. There has, however, been relatively little examination of the legal implications and applications of Foucault's work. This book fills that gap, providing an in-depth analysis of Foucault's thought as it pertains t