Foucault in an Age of Terror
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Foucault in an Age of Terror

Essays on Biopolitics and the Defence of Society

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eBook - PDF

Foucault in an Age of Terror

Essays on Biopolitics and the Defence of Society

About this book

This book focuses on the relationship between literary culture, power, society and war. It assesses the critical importance of Michel Foucault's lecture series Society Must Be Defended for contemporary debates about war and terror in literary and cultural studies, as well as social and political thought.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Notes on the Contributors
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Life Struggles: War, Discipline and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault
  7. 2 Poetry Must Be Defended: Post-Waterloo Responses to ‘Power’s Ode to Itself’
  8. 3 Sovereignty, Biopolitics and the Use of Literature: Michel Foucault and Kathy Acker
  9. 4 Michel Foucault: Biopolitics and Biology
  10. 5 Biopolitics, Biological Racism and Eugenics
  11. 6 Some Reflections on Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended and the Idea of ‘Race’
  12. 7 War and Peace, or Governmentality as the Ruin of Democracy
  13. 8 Necropolitics
  14. 9 Torture, Terrorism and Colonial Sovereignty
  15. 10 ‘Manual for a Raid’ and ‘Henslowe’s Diary’: Foucault and the Multiple Meanings of the Document
  16. 11 Foucault, Auden and Two New York Septembers
  17. Index