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Foucault and Neoliberalism

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Foucault's Ambiguous Neo-liberalism

This book is a great read for those interested in understanding Foucault's complex attitude towards neo-liberalism. It provides an insightful analysis of Foucault's last works and his radical critique of the welfare state as an instrument of biopower. The book challenges conventional views and asks important questions about the French intellectual field and the mutations of the left since May 1968. Overall, it's a thought-provoking read for anyone interested in intellectual history and political philosophy.

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Foucault and Neoliberalism

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ISBN: 9781509501762
Publisher: Polity Press
Date of Publication: 2015-12-21
Format: Hardback
Related Collections: Politics, Philosophy
Related Topics: Political Science, Theory, Theory
Goodreads rating: 3.89
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Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault was not a direct witness of these years, his work on neoliberalism is nonetheless prescient: the question of liberalism occupies an important place in his last works. Since his death, Foucault's conceptual apparatus has acquired a central, even dominant position for a substantial segment of the world's intellectual left. However, as the contributions to this volume demonstrate, Foucault's attitude towards neoliberalism was at least equivocal. Far from leading an intellectual struggle against free market orthodoxy, Foucault seems in many ways to endorse it. How is one to understand his radical critique of the welfare state, understood as an instrument of biopower? Or his support for the pandering anti-Marxism of the so-called 'new philosophers'? Is it possible that Foucault was seduced by neoliberalism?
This question is not merely of biographical interest: it forces us to confront more generally the mutations of the left since May 1968, the disillusionment of the years that followed and the profound transformations in the French intellectual field over the past thirty years. To understand the 1980s and the neoliberal triumph is to explore the most ambiguous corners of the intellectual left through one of its most important figures.


Author: D Zamora
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 152
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Date: 21 Dec 2015
 

Foucault's Ambiguous Neo-liberalism

This book is a great read for those interested in understanding Foucault's complex attitude towards neo-liberalism. It provides an insightful analysis of Foucault's last works and his radical critique of the welfare state as an instrument of biopower. The book challenges conventional views and asks important questions about the French intellectual field and the mutations of the left since May 1968. Overall, it's a thought-provoking read for anyone interested in intellectual history and political philosophy.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.