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Title page
Copyright page
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Foucault and New Philosophy: Why Foucault Endorsed André Glucksmann's The Master Thinkers
2: Liberalism without Humanism: Michel Foucault and the Free-Market Creed, 1976–1979
3: Foucault, the Excluded, and the Neoliberal Erosion of the State
4: Foucault, Ewald, Neoliberalism, and the Left
5: Bourdieu, Foucault, and the Penal State in the Neoliberal Era
6: The Unfulfilled Promises of the Late Foucault and Foucauldian "Governmentality Studies"
7: Michel Foucault and the Spiritualization of Philosophy
8: The Great Rage of Facts
Conclusion: The Strange Failure (and Peculiar Success) of Foucault's Project
Notes
Index
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DANIEL ZAMORA is a PhD candidate at the Free University of Brussels and his work on Foucault has been widely published.
MICHAEL C. BEHRENT is Associate Professor at Appalachian State University.
"In recent years, Michel Foucault has garnered a reputation as a
fierce critic of the neoliberal order, especially through his
analyses of micro-politics and governmentality. But the essays in
this terrific collection raise important questions about Foucault�s
relation to neoliberalism. They show that Foucault himself was
quite sympathetic to some of its core elements, and, more
importantly, that his theory has in many ways diluted the
intellectual resources that might enable more successful resistance
to it. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in critical
social theory and in contemporary political culture."
Vivek Chibber, New York University �Michel Foucault was a
far-sighted theorist, but also a creature of his time. This
superlative collection moves beyond early polemics in order to
force reflection on the uses and limits of the great philosopher�s
now celebrated investigation of neoliberalism in part by
providing a reminder of how it fit in the various contexts of
French intellectual life in the 1970s that informed it. Michael
Behrent and Daniel Zamora deserve credit for offering precautions,
rather than �burning� Foucault, as the next stage of his reception
unfolds.�
Samuel Moyn, Harvard University �The antistatist turn of much of
the global left has disturbing but largely unexamined affinities
with neoliberalism. Michel Foucault, for all his greatness, is a
key figure in this turn. This collection is a stimulating
exploration of those affinities, and, to put it provocatively, but
not inaccurately, Foucault's commonalities with the likes of Gary
Becker and Friedrich Hayek. This excellent book will annoy many,
but it has the potential, for those with sufficiently open minds,
of being a productive annoyance.�
Doug Henwood, The Nation �Foucault and Neoliberalism has already
begun to launch a crucial historical and political debate. Its
critique and historical contextualization of Foucault�s late work
open up new perspectives on the rise of neoliberalism in France and
the general evolution of the intellectual left since the 1980s.
From the retreat of class analysis to the triumph both of identity
politics and of a conception of social justice limited to equality
of opportunity, Foucault and Neoliberalism helps us first to
understand and then to imagine an alternative to the political dead
end of the contemporary left.�
Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago
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