Michel Foucault and Power Today International Multidisciplinary Studies in the History of the Present

by Gabbard, David A.; Beaulieu, Alain; Colucci, Mario; Vittorio, Pierangelo Di; Gabbard, David; Lanoix, Monique; Lavagno, Christian; Lemke, Thomas; Melossi, Dario; Montag, Warren; Nicholls, Tracey; Pearce, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780739111819
• ISBN10: 0739111817
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-22
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Few thinkers have left such an influence across such a diverse range of studies as Michel Foucault has. This book pays homage to that diversity by presenting a multidisciplinary series of analyses dedicated to the question of power today.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	xv
Part I Law & Politics
Michel Foucault and the Obsolescent State: Between the American Century and the Dawn of the European Union	3	(10)
Dario Melossi
The Immanence of Law in Power: Reading Foucault with Agamben	13	(10)
Warren Montag
The Hybrid Character of ``Control'' in the Work of Michel Foucault	23	(14)
Alain Beaulieu
Part II Politics & Culture
No ``Coppertops'' Left Behind: Foucault, The Matrix, and the Future of Compulsory Schooling	37	(14)
David Gabbard
It Does Too Matter: Michel Foucault, John Coltrane, and Dominant Positions	51	(10)
Tracey Nicholls
Part III Psychiatry
Foucault and Psychiatric Power after Madness and Civilization	61	(10)
Mario Colucci
From Psychiatry to Bio-Politics or the Birth of the Bio-Security State	71	(12)
Pierangelo Di Vittorio
Part IV Health Care
Genetic Responsibility and Neo-Liberal Governmentality: Medical Diagnosis as Moral Technology	83	(10)
Thomas Lemke
The Problem with High-Maintenance Bodies or the Politics of Care	93	(14)
Monique Lanoix
Part V The French Context
Subverting Social Order: Foucault and Derrida on the Role of the Intellectual	107	(8)
Christian Lavagno
Foucault and the ``Hydra-Headed Monster'': The College de Sociologie and the Two Acephales	115	(24)
Frank Pearce
Notes	139	(26)
Index	165	(4)
About the Contributors	169