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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822640403321

Titolo

The government of life : Foucault, biopolitics, and neoliberalism / / edited by Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter ; Francesco Paolo Adorno [and ten others], contributor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-5599-9

0-8232-5597-2

0-8232-5600-6

0-8232-6139-5

0-8232-5598-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Forms of Living

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Neoliberalism

Biopolitics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Fourth Age of Security -- 2. The Law of the House hold: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Iranian Revolution -- 3. The Risks of Security: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Fear -- 4. A Genealogy of Biopolitics: The Notion of Life in Canguilhem and Foucault -- 5. Power over Life, Politics of Death: Forms of Resistance to Biopower in Foucault -- 6. Identity, Nature, Life: Three Biopolitical Deconstructions -- 7. From Reason of State to Liberalism: The Coup d’État as Form of Government -- 8. Foucault and Rawls: Government and Public Reason -- 9. Foucault and Hayek: Republican Law and Liberal Civil Society -- 10. Parrhesia between East and West: Foucault and Dissidence -- 11. The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community: Foucault and the Cynics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.