Foucault with Marx

ISBN-13: 9781783605378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str.

Jacques Bidet;Steven Corcoran

Opis

Two of the world s greatest political theorists, Foucault and Marx were highly influential during their respective time periods and remain so today. Bringing the works of these powerful thinkers together for the first time, Jacques Bidet offers a radical synthesis of Marxian and Foucauldian theory.
In Foucault with Marx, Bidet investigates Marxian and Foucauldian criticisms of capitalist modernity with unprecedented detail. For Marx, the intersection between capital and the market is crucial, and property-owners make up the true ruling class. Foucault, Bidet explains, argued that organizational elements of capital are key, and therefore managers hold the dominating power and knowledge in society. Labeling these two sides of the capitalist coin as market and organization, Bidet shows how each leads to specific forms of social conflict, and he walks the reader through the catastrophic aftereffects of both. Offering more than just a comparative theoretical analysis, Bidet unites two chief figures of critical social theory at last, and in turn, bridges the long-held separation between the old left and the new.
Comprehensive and decisive, Foucault with Marx will enliven dialogues across the political spectrum and interest anyone with a passion for intelligent, thought-provoking social philosophy."

Recenzje

'The ongoing confrontation between Marx and Foucault is a primary theoretical issue implicit in every political struggle today, whether domestic or international. Bidet's careful and detailed staging of the intersections of these two quite different bodies of theory is an indispensable exercise.'
Fredric Jameson, author of The Political Unconscious and Marxism and Form

'In this important work, Jacques Bidet shows with patient and piercing insight why it is necessary to link Foucault with Marx (and Marx with Foucault) in order to make sense of the contemporary world. It will undoubtedly become an essential work for anyone seeking to think through the productive relations between the two thinkers.'
Nick Srnicek, co-author of Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

'In the growing literature confronting and combining the legacies of Marx and Foucault, Jacques Bidet's contribution will stand out with exceptional relevance. It is both firmly anchored in the author's doctrine of the "dual" nature of capitalist domination (capital as property and capital as knowledge) and full of imaginative readings of the texts.'
Etienne Balibar, co-author of Reading Capital

'Bidet creatively interrogates Marx's critique of property and class relations and Foucault's critique of knowledge-power relations to produce an original synthesis that informs a novel approach to resistance and struggles for counter-hegemony in the present neoliberal conjuncture.'
Robert Jessop, author of The Future of the Capitalist State

'Highly accomplished...a superb theoretical synthesis.'
LSE Review of Books

'Represents yet another contribution to the eventual overcoming of an academic skirmish between advocates of Foucault and Marx, itself a smaller conflict in the larger battle of postmodernism versus Marxism.'
Contrivers' Review

'Competent and lucid ... hold[s] out hope of reconnecting what used to be called the "new social movements" with struggles against capitalism.'
Marx and Philosophy Review of Books

Spis treści

Introduction: Why Unite Marx and Foucault, and How? 1. The Marx/Foucault Difference: Discipline and Governmentality 2. Property-Power and Knowledge-Power 3. Marxian Structuralism and Foucauldian Nominalism 4. Marx’s ‘Capitalism’ and Foucault’s ‘Liberalism’ Elements of a Conclusion: A Strategy from Below

O autorze

Bidet, Jacques
Jacques Bidet is a French philosopher and social theorist. Currently professor emeritus in the Philosophy Department at the Université de Paris X - Nanterre. His most recently translated books are Exploring Marx's Capital: Philosophical, Economic and Political Dimensions (2007) and A Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism (2007), in 2014 he wrote the Introduction to Louis Althusser's On The Reproduction Of Capitalism (2014).