Foucault, Biopolitics and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781032094304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 210 str.

Lauri Siisiäinen

Opis

This work hopes to offer fresh methodological insights, fruitful for further empirical research on social and political movements in today's world, filling the gap with a book-length study that examines late Foucault's body of texts in a comprehensive manner.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part I: RESISTANCE　AND　THE　POLITICS　OF　AUTONOMY:　FOUCAULT’S　UNYIELDING DISCOURSES  2. The Hellenistic-Roman/Enlightenment Model of Resistance  3. Foucauldian Self-Help? Spirituality and Biopolitics in the 21^st Century  Part II. RESISTANT BODIES AND AFFECTS
  4.　The Politics of Aphrodisia and the Gay Mode of Life  5. Aesthetic Counter-Conduct 6. Aesthetic and Queer Resistance: Intersections and Further Questions  Part III. AFFIRMATIVE BIOPOLITICS AND RESISTANCE  7. From Cynicism to Ars Erotica  8. Foucault and Zen: Spirituality, Resistance and Affirmative Biopolitics  9. Conclusion

O autorze

Lauri Siisiainen is a University Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is interested in political theory and political philosophy (especially continental), as well as in issues of power, government/governmentality, biopolitics and resistance more broadly. He has published extensively on these areas both in English and in Finnish.