Foucault Beyond Foucault

Power and Its Intensifications since 1984

Jeffrey Nealon

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9780804757027
  9780804757010
• eBook ISBN:
  9780804768443
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophical Criticism

In Foucault Beyond Foucault Jeffrey Nealon argues that critics have too hastily abandoned Foucault's mid-career reflections on power, and offers a revisionist reading of the philosopher's middle and later works. Retracing power's "intensification" in Foucault, Nealon argues that forms of political power remain central to Foucault's concerns. He allows us to reread Foucault's own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that have taken place since the philosopher's death in 1984. In this, the book stages an overdue encounter between Foucault and post-Marxist economic history.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Foucault Today
• Chapter 1/ Foucault Beyond Foucault
• Chapter 2/ Once More, with Intensity: Foucault’s History of Power Revisited
• Chapter 3/ Genealogies of Capitalism: Foucault, with Deleuze and Jameson
• Chapter 4/ Foucault’s Infamous Ethics; or, Biopower, Globalization, and Ethical Scarcity
• Chapter 5/ Resisting, Foucault
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index of Names