Foucault Now (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements vii

Contributors viii

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction: The Use of Foucault 1
James D. Faubion

Part I: Object Lessons

1 The Undefined Work of Freedom: Foucault’s Genealogy and the Anthropology of Ethics 23
James Laidlaw

2 Déraison 38
Ian Hacking

3 Foucault’s Evil Genius 52
Lynne Huffer

4 Toward an Ethics of Subjectivation: French Resistances to Psychoanalysis in the 1970s 71
Didier Eribon

5 Michel Foucault’s Critical Empiricism Today: Concepts and Analytics in the Critique of Biopower and Infopower 88
Colin Koopman

6 Foucault’s Face: The Personal is the Theoretical 112
John Forrester

Part II: Cases in Point

7 Biopower, Sexual Democracy, and the Racialization of Sex 131
Eric Fassin

8 “A New Schema of Politicization”: Thinking Humans, Animals, and Biopolitics with Foucault 152
Cary Wolfe

9 Parrhesia and Therapeusis: Foucault on and in the World of Contemporary Neoliberalism 168
Laurence McFalls and Mariella Pandolfi

10 Foucault, Marx, Neoliberalism: Unveiling Undercover Boss 188
Toby Miller

11 Assembling Untimeliness: Permanently and Restively 203
Paul Rabinow

12 Constantine Cavafy: A Parrhesiast for the Cynic of the Future 225
James D. Faubion

References 243

Index 264