Foucault And The Politics Of Rights

Author : Ben Golder
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804796513
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault and the Politics of Rights written by Ben Golder and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic of the liberal discourse of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976 onward, he makes increasing appeals to rights in his philosophical writings, political statements, interviews, and journalism. He not only defends their importance; he argues for rights new and as-yet-unrecognized. Does Foucault simply revise his former positions and endorse a liberal politics of rights? Ben Golder proposes an answer to this puzzle, which is that Foucault approaches rights in a spirit of creative and critical appropriation. He uses rights strategically for a range of political purposes that cannot be reduced to a simple endorsement of political liberalism. Golder develops this interpretation of Foucault's work while analyzing its shortcomings and relating it to the approaches taken by a series of current thinkers also engaged in considering the place of rights in contemporary politics, including Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière.

Author : John S. Ransom
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822318699
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault's Discipline written by John S. Ransom and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Foucault’s Discipline, John S. Ransom extracts a distinctive vision of the political world—and oppositional possibilities within it—from the welter of disparate topics and projects Michel Foucault pursued over his lifetime. Uniquely, Ransom presents Foucault as a political theorist in the tradition of Weber and Nietzsche, and specifically examines Foucault’s work in relation to the political tradition of liberalism and the Frankfurt School. By concentrating primarily on Discipline and Punish and the later Foucauldian texts, Ransom provides a fresh interpretation of this controversial philosopher’s perspectives on concepts such as freedom, right, truth, and power. Foucault’s Discipline demonstrates how Foucault’s valorization of descriptive critique over prescriptive plans of action can be applied to the decisively altered political landscape of the end of this millennium. By reconstructing the philosopher’s arguments concerning the significance of disciplinary institutions, biopower, subjectivity, and forms of resistance in modern society, Ransom shows how Foucault has provided a different way of looking at and responding to contemporary models of government—in short, a new depiction of the political world.

Author : Ben Golder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415673534
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-reading Foucault written by Ben Golder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a collection which fully addresses the relevance of Foucault's thought for law. The book provides an in-depth analysis of Foucault's thought as it pertains to the crucial questions of law, government and rights.

Author : Andrew Barry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134222416
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault And Political Reason written by Andrew Barry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foucault is often thought to have a great deal to say about the history of madness and sexuality, but little in terms of a general analysis of government and the state.; This volume draws on Foucault's own research to challenge this view, demonstrating the central importance of his work for the study of contemporary politics.; It focuses on liberalism and neo- liberalism, questioning the conceptual opposition of freedom/constraint, state/market and public/private that inform liberal thought.

Author : Jon Simons
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415100666
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault and the Political written by Jon Simons and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory study of Michel Foucault as a political thinker.

Author : Thomas L. Dumm
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742521397
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom written by Thomas L. Dumm and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of a 1995 book (Sage Publications) contains a new introduction by the series editor and a new preface. Readers familiar with Foucault's work will appreciate the difficulty in critically studying its arresting paradoxical nature. Dumm (political science, Amherst College) negotiates the problem by creating a thematic framework--the idea of being "free" in a modern Western capitalist democracy--and examining it through a Foucaultian lens. He focuses on the politics of freedom, negative freedom, the disciplinary society, ethics, seduction, governments, and provides an enlightening companion to Foucault's postmodern philosophy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472084739
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identities, Politics, and Rights written by Austin Sarat and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997-10-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reevaluation of how rights liberate and constrain human behavior

Author : Laura Cremonesi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786601060
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault and the Making of Subjects written by Laura Cremonesi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a Foucaultian understanding of the subject in relation to truth and power.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226080451
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foucault Effect written by Michel Foucault and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-07-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures on rationalities of government, this work examines the art or activity of government and the different ways in which it has been made thinkable and practicable. There are also contributions of other scholars exploring modern manifestations of government.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Semiotext(e)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Truth, New Edition written by Michel Foucault and published by Semiotext(e). This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred years later, Michel Foucault wrote a response to Kant's initial essay, positioning Kant as the initiator of the discourse and critique of modernity.