Foucault's New Domains

ISBN-13: 9780415086608 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 240 str.

Mike Gane;Terry Johnson;Mike Gane

Opis

This book explores the influence of Foucault's later writings on basic theoretical and research concerns in the social sciences. The introduction contextualizes the development of Foucault's writings within a biographical frame and leads into Foucault's College de France lecture, Kant on Enlightenment and Revolution which, along with Colin Gordon's commentary, raises the issues crucial to Foucault's latter project - the relationship between reason and liberty. The answer suggested - involving a reformulation of the relationship between the subject and power - connects with the issues raised in subsequent chapters, including Pasquino's focus on the relationship between the governmentality of the modern state and the self-governing individual and Meuret's analysis of the link between Adam Smith's novel conception of political economy and the emergent political structures of modern capitalist states. The following four chapters all extend Foucault's insights into new domains of social analysis, namely the role of language in constructing and governing the econmomy (Miller and Rose), and the shifting relations between sovereignty and responsibility in the welfare state (Donzelot).

This major collection brings Foucault's later work into sharp focus and illustrates some of the ways in which it is informing developments in the social sciences. Concise, clear and wide-ranging it provides an essential accessory to the understanding one of the key thinkers in the twentieth century.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, Mike Gane, Terry Johnson; Chapter 2, Michel Foucault, Colin Gordon; Chapter 3 Question, ethos, event, Colin Gordon; Chapter 4 Michel Foucault (1926-84), Pasquale Pasquino, Chloe Chard; Chapter 5 A political genealogy of political economy, Denis Meuret, Graham Burchell; Chapter 6 Governing economic life, Peter Miller, Nikolas Rose; Chapter 7, Jacques Donzelot, Graham Burchell; Chapter 8 Expertise and the state, Terry Johnson; Chapter 9 Personality as a vocation, Ian Hunter; Chapter 10 Archaeologizing genealogy, Phil Bevis, Michèle Cohen, Gavin Kendall;

O autorze

Gane, Mike; Johnson, Terry