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The Elements of Foucault (Hardcover)
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The Elements of Foucault (Hardcover)
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A new conceptual diagram of Foucault's original vision of the
biopolitical order The history around the critical reception of
Michel Foucault's published writings is troubled, according to
Gregg Lambert, especially in light of the controversy surrounding
his late lectures on biopolitics and neoliberal governmentality. In
this book, Lambert's unique approach distills Foucault's thought
into its most basic components in order to more fully understand
its method and its own immanent rules of construction. The Elements
of Foucault presents a critical study of Foucault's concept of
method from the earlier History of Sexuality, Volume 1, to his
later lectures. Lambert breaks down Foucault's post-1975 analysis
of the idea of biopower into four elements: the method, the
conceptual device (i.e., dispositif), the grid of intelligibility,
and the notion of "milieu." Taken together, these elements compose
the diagram of Foucault's early analysis and the emergence of the
neoliberal political economy. Lambert further delves into how
Foucault's works have been used and misused over time, challenging
the periodization of Foucault's later thought in scholarship as
well as the major and most influential readings of Foucault by
other contemporary philosophers-in particular Gilles Deleuze and
Giorgio Agamben. The Elements of Foucault is the first generally
accessible, yet rigorous and comprehensive, discussion of lectures
and major published works of Foucault's post-1975 theory of
biopower and of the major innovation of the concept of dispositif.
It is also the first critical work to address the important
influence of French philosopher Georges Canghuilhem on Foucault's
thought.
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