03183nam 2200577 450 991046113470332120210510220450.00-8047-9651-310.1515/9780804796514(CKB)3710000000468005(SSID)ssj0001544336(PQKBManifestationID)16136454(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001544336(PQKBWorkID)14118468(PQKB)11087704(MiAaPQ)EBC3568975(DE-B1597)564455(DE-B1597)9780804796514(Au-PeEL)EBL3568975(CaPaEBR)ebr11095031(OCoLC)932322719(OCoLC)1198931657(EXLCZ)99371000000046800520151118h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrFoucault and the politics of rights /Ben GolderStanford, California :Stanford University Press,2015.©20151 online resourceBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8047-9649-1 0-8047-8934-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --INTRODUCTION --CHAPTER 1. CRITICAL COUNTER-CONDUCTS --CHAPTER 2. WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF (FOUCAULT’S HUMAN) RIGHTS? --CHAPTER 3. THE AMBIVALENCE OF RIGHTS --CHAPTER 4. RIGHTS BETWEEN TACTICS AND STRATEGY --CONCLUSION --NOTES --BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXThis 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.Human rightsPhilosophyElectronic books.Human rightsPhilosophy.323.01Golder Ben950375MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461134703321Foucault and the politics of rights2464269UNINA