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Book SynopsisMichel 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.
Trade Review"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."
—Simon During, University of Queensland
"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."
—Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth
"Foucault Now 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."
—Tony Bennett, University of Western Sydney
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii
Contributors viii
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: The Use of Foucault 1
James D. Faubion
Part I: Object Lessons
1 The Undefined Work of Freedom: Foucault’s Genealogy and the Anthropology of Ethics 23
James Laidlaw
2 Déraison 38
Ian Hacking
3 Foucault’s Evil Genius 52
Lynne Huffer
4 Toward an Ethics of Subjectivation: French Resistances to Psychoanalysis in the 1970s 71
Didier Eribon
5 Michel Foucault’s Critical Empiricism Today: Concepts and Analytics in the Critique of Biopower and Infopower 88
Colin Koopman
6 Foucault’s Face: The Personal is the Theoretical 112
John Forrester
Part II: Cases in Point
7 Biopower, Sexual Democracy, and the Racialization of Sex 131
Eric Fassin
8 “A New Schema of Politicization”: Thinking Humans, Animals, and Biopolitics with Foucault 152
Cary Wolfe
9 Parrhesia and Therapeusis: Foucault on and in the World of Contemporary Neoliberalism 168
Laurence McFalls and Mariella Pandolfi
10 Foucault, Marx, Neoliberalism: Unveiling Undercover Boss 188
Toby Miller
11 Assembling Untimeliness: Permanently and Restively 203
Paul Rabinow
12 Constantine Cavafy: A Parrhesiast for the Cynic of the Future 225
James D. Faubion
References 243
Index 264
