Gregg Lambert

The Elements of Foucault

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Produktbeschreibung

"The Elements of Foucault presents a critical study of Foucault's concept of method from the earlier History of Sexuality, Volume 1, to the last lectures on biopolitics and neoliberal governmentality. Gregg Lambert begins from the perception that Foucault's work has been erroneously perceived as fragmented and at odds with itself. To counter this widely held impression, Lambert breaks Foucault's thought down into its most basic elements (its statements, propositions, hypotheses, and figures) in order to understand its method and its own immanent rules of construction"--

Produktdetails

• Posthumanities
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781517908782
• ISBN-10: 1517908787
• Artikelnr.: 59368436

Autorenporträt

Gregg Lambert is Dean’s Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University and Distinguished International Scholar at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He is founding director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center and the Society for the Study of Biopolitical Futures. Lambert is author of thirteen books, most recently In Search of a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism and Philosophy after Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae (both from Minnesota).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Article I. On “Foucault”
Article II. On the Elements of Biopower (Circa 1975–1979)
1. Method
Foucault’s More Geometrico
The Problem of “Rationalizing Power”
The Axiomatic Method of Analysis
The Rules of Immanence
2. Conceptual Device
“What is a Dispositif?”
The “Deployment” of Sexuality
“The Category of the Subject and its Functioning”
The Birth of the Cartesian Dispositif
3. Grid of Intelligibility
Toward a Government of the Living
The Principle of Vitalpolitik
The Society of Control
The Problem of an “Inflationary Theory of the State”
Article III. On the Mutations of Biopower (Post-1984)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index