The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions

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Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Another Word on Foucault’s Final Words
	Notes
	References
Part One Philosophical Practices, Philosophy as Practice
	1 Foucault’s Reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life: Genealogy as a Spiritual Exercise
		Philosophical Heroism
		Foucault’s Reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life
		Genealogy as a Spiritual Exercise
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	2 Self or Cosmos: Foucault versus Hadot
		Foucault’s Late Work and its Debt to Hadot
		Hadot’s Criticisms of Foucault
		Analysis of Hadot’s Criticisms
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	3 The Great Cycle of the World: Foucault and Hadot on the Cosmic Perspective and the Care of the Self
		Hadot’s Critique
		Government, Life, Self
		Foucault’s “Cybernetics”
		Cosmos and Experience in Hadot
		Foucault on the Knowledge of Nature and the Care of the Self
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part Two Care of the Self, Care of Others
	4 Foucault According to Stiegler: Technics of the Self
		Between Subjectivation and Subjection
		The Technicization of Subjectivation
		Between the Transcendental and the Empirical
		Stiegler’s Politics of Care
		Conclusion
		References
	5 Notes Towards a Critical History of Musicalities: Philodemus on the Use of Musical Pleasures and the Care of the Self
		The Hupomnēmata and the “Moral Problematization” of “Musical” Pleasures
		A “Moral Sociology” of Music versus an “Anthropology of Musical Moralities”
		Notes
		References
	6 Foucault’s Ultimate Technology1
		“We Should Not Let Ourselves Be Worried About the Future”
		A Hierarchy Based on Perception of Temporality
		Praemeditatio Malorum
		Meditatio Mortis
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part Three Ontology of the Present, Politics of Truth
	7 The Care of the Present: On Foucault’s Ontological Machine
		An Ontological Inquiry
		Self-Genealogy and the Present as an Ontological Field
		Care of the Self, Care of Others
		The Coherence of Incoherence
		The Care of the Present as a Philosophical Task
		Notes
		References
	8 Agonistic Truth: The Issue of Power Between the Will to Knowledge and Government by Truth
		Lectures on the Will to Know: Polemic Truth
		Submitting to Truth
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	9 From Jurisdiction to Veridiction: The Late Foucault’s Shift to Subjectivity
		Power/Knowledge and the First Reading of Homer (1970–1)
		From Jurisdiction . . .
		. . . To Veridiction
		The Second Reading of Homer (1981)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part Four Government of Self, Government of Others
	10 Understanding Power Through Governmentality
		Foucault’s Kantian Method
		Nominalism and Empiricism in Foucault’s Work
		Governmentality and Power—The New Conception of Power
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	11 On Authority: A Discussion Between Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt
		Hannah Arendt and the Problem of Authority
		Michel Foucault: From Power to Governmentality
		Michel Foucault and the Parrhēsia
		Authority and the Cynics
		Notes
		References
	12 Neoliberal Subjectivity at the Political Frontier
		Post-Marxist Post-Marxism
		The (Missing) Empty Signifier
		An Entrepreneur of Himself at the Political Frontier
		Situating the Centrality of Neoliberal Subjectivity
		Laissez-faire Turned into Do-not-laissez-faire
		Abolishing Economic Reductionism
		The State is not a Special Organism
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part Five Truth-Telling, Truth-Living
	13 Rethinking Confession
		Avowal and Confession in Foucault’s “Early Years,” 1954–74
		The Avowal and its Economies of Power: From The Will to Know to the Stanford Lectures
		History of Sexuality, vol. 1: The Will to Know
		The Government of the Living
		Pastoral Power in the Stanford Lectures
		Defining the Avowal: Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
		Avowal and Pastoral Power: Les aveux de la chair
		The Formation of a New Experience
		Avowal and Pastoral Power
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	14 Truth-Telling as Therapeutic Practice: On the Tension Between Psychiatric Subjectivation and Parrhesiastic Self-Cultivation1
		Truth-Telling as a Therapeutic Practice in Philosophy and Psychiatry
		The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
		Modern Psychotherapy Revisited: A Foucauldian Approach
		Notes
		References
	15 Foucault, the Politics of Ourselves, and the Subversive Truth-Telling of Trauma: Survivors as Parrhesiasts
		Foucault on Rivière and Barbin: Discourse, Power, Confession
		Beyond Confession: Self-Writing and the Risky Truth- Telling of Parrhēsia
		Self-Narration Between/Beyond the Personal and the Political
		Survivors as Parrhesiasts: The Subversive Truth-Telling of Trauma
		Conclusion: Narrating Otherwise
		Notes
		References
List of Contributors
Index