{"product_id":"foucault-now-hardback-9780745663784","title":"Foucault Now (Hardback) 9780745663784","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFoucault Now\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Faubion (Edited by), J Faubion (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745663784, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 February 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.6 x 2.7 cm, 0.476 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"No thinker of the last generation helped shape understandings of the world more powerfully than Foucault. This splendid and up-to-date anthology shows that his work, through its various phases, retains its analytic power today.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSimon During, University of Queensland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Now is an appropriate time to reassess Foucault's work, to reflect upon its significance, relevance, and impact. These wide-ranging and challenging essays by leading figures in the field demonstrate the extraordinary breadth and depth of Foucault's contribution to the social sciences and humanities.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBarry Smart, University of Portsmouth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFoucault Now\u003c\/i\u003e shows that 'Foucault then' is as relevant today as ever he was. The essays collected here traverse the full range of Foucault's work. In situating his concerns and methods within the politics of his times, they also connect them to the politics of the present with a compelling urgency. Foucault's originality still astonishes, and he remains simply indispensable.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTony Bennett, University of Western Sydney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMichel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This interdisciplinary volume brings together a group of esteemed scholars, recognized for their command of and insights into Foucault's oeuvre. They demonstrate the many respects in which Foucault's project of an ontology of the present remains vital and continues to yield compelling insights and show that an ontology of the present is restricted to no particular terrain, but instead ranges widely and on paths that frequently intersect.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The essays in this much-needed new collection address the key components of Foucault's thought, ranging from his approach to power, biopolitics and parrhesia to analysis of key texts such as \u003ci\u003eFolie et Déraison\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHistoire de la sexualité\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThis collection will spark debate amongst students and scholars alike and demonstrates that that every further encounter with Foucault's corpus is more likely than not to demand a revisiting of interpretations already formulated, conclusions already drawn, uses already devised.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Contributors include Didier Eribon, Eric Fassin, John Forrester, Ian Hacking, Lynne Huffer, Colin Koopman, James Laidlaw, Laurence McFalls, Mariella Pandolfi, Paul Rabinow and Cary Wolfe.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements vii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors viii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbbreviations xiii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Use of Foucault 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames D. Faubion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Object Lessons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Undefined Work of Freedom: Foucault’s Genealogy and the Anthropology of Ethics 23\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Laidlaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Déraison 38\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIan Hacking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Foucault’s Evil Genius 52\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLynne Huffer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Toward an Ethics of Subjectivation: French Resistances to Psychoanalysis in the 1970s 71\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDidier Eribon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Michel Foucault’s Critical Empiricism Today: Concepts and Analytics in the Critique of Biopower and Infopower 88\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eColin Koopman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Foucault’s Face: The Personal is the Theoretical 112\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Forrester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Cases in Point\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Biopower, Sexual Democracy, and the Racialization of Sex 131\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEric Fassin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 “A New Schema of Politicization”: Thinking Humans, Animals, and Biopolitics with Foucault 152\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCary Wolfe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Parrhesia and Therapeusis: Foucault on and in the World of Contemporary Neoliberalism 168\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaurence McFalls and Mariella Pandolfi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Foucault, Marx, Neoliberalism: Unveiling Undercover Boss 188\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eToby Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Assembling Untimeliness: Permanently and Restively 203\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Rabinow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Constantine Cavafy: A Parrhesiast for the Cynic of the Future 225\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames D. Faubion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReferences 243\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 264\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407329521944,"sku":"9780745663784","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745663784.jpg?v=1784162524","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/foucault-now-hardback-9780745663784","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}