Libro Foucault and Neoliberalism De Zamora, Daniel ; Behrent, Michael C.

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Polity Press

Autor

Zamora, Daniel ; Behrent, Michael C.

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

152

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.8 x 14.2 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781509501762

Categorías

Filosofía occidental en el xix

Foucault and Neoliberalism

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Reseña del libro "Foucault and Neoliberalism"

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.