1st Edition
Foucault's Politics of Philosophy Power, Law, and Subjectivity
By Sandro Chignola
Copyright 2019
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
Contents
To the English reader
Preface
Chapter 1. The impossible of the sovereign. Governmentality and liberalism
Chapter 2. Body Factories. Foucault, Marx
Chapter 3. The politics of the governed. Governmentality, forms of life, subjectivation
Chapter 4. Koinōnikon zôon. Stoics and the other modernity
Chapter 5. ‘Phantasiebildern’/‘histoire fiction’. Weber, Foucault
Chapter 6. The courage of truth. Parrhēsia and critique
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Sandro Chignola, Ph.D, is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Padua (Italy), where he teaches History of Political Philosophy and Political Philosophy, and Visiting Professor at the UNSAM (Buenos Aires).
