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Foucault's Politics of Philosophy - Power, Law and Subjectivity (Hardcover)
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Foucault's Politics of Philosophy - Power, Law and Subjectivity (Hardcover)
Series: Law and Politics
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Oriented around the theme of a 'politics of philosophy', this book
tracks the phases in which Foucault's genealogy of power, law, and
subjectivity was reorganized during the 14 years of his teaching at
the College de France, as his focus shifted from sovereignty to
governance. This theme, Sandro Chignola argues here, is the key to
understanding four features of Foucault's work over this period.
First, it foregrounds its immediate political character. Second, it
demonstrates that Foucault's "Greek trip" also aims at a politics
of the subject that is able to face the processes of the
governmentalization of power. Third, it makes clear that the idea
of the "government of the self" is - drawing on an ethics of
intellectual responsibility that is Weberian in origin - an answer
to the processes that, within neoliberal governance, produce the
subject as an individual (as a consumer, a market agent, an
entrepreneur, and so on). Fourth, the theme of a 'politics of
philosophy' implies that Foucault's research was never simply
scholarly or neutral; but rather was characterized by a specific
political position. Against recent interpretations that risk
turning Foucault into a scholar, here then Foucault is re-presented
as a key figure for jurisprudential and political-philosophical
research.
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