Foucault Beyond Foucault : Power and Its Intensifications Since 1984

by Nealon, Jeffrey T.

• ISBN13: 9780804757027
• ISBN10: 080475702X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-12
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

InFoucault Beyond FoucaultJeffrey Nealon argues that critics have too hastily abandoned Foucault's mid-career reflections on power, and offers a revisionist reading of the philosopher's middle and later works. Retracing power's "intensification" in Foucault, Nealon argues that forms of political power remain central to Foucault's concerns. He allows us to reread Foucault's own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that have taken place since the philosopher's death in 1984. In this, the book stages an overdue encounter between Foucault and post-Marxist economic history.

Author Biography

Jeffrey T. Nealon is Professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction (1993), Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity (1998), and The Theory Toolbox (2003).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Foucault Today	p. 1
Foucault Beyond Foucault	p. 7
Once More, with Intensity: Foucault's History of Power Revisited	p. 24
Genealogies of Capitalism: Foucault, with Deleuze and Jameson	p. 54
Foucault's Infamous Ethics; or, Biopower, Globalization, and Ethical Scarcity	p. 74
Resisting, Foucault	p. 94
Notes	p. 113
Works Cited	p. 127
Index of Names	p. 135
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