A Companion to Foucault

A Companion to Foucault
ISBN: 978-1-118-32490-5
Feb 2013, Wiley-Blackwell
632 pages
Description
A Companion to Foucault comprises a collection of essays from established and emerging scholars that represent the most extensive treatment of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s works currently available.
- Comprises a comprehensive collection of authors and topics, with both established and emerging scholars represented
- Includes chapters that survey Foucault’s major works and others that approach his work from a range of thematic angles
- Engages extensively with Foucault's recently published lecture courses from the Collège de France
- Contains the first translation of the extensive ‘Chronology’ of Foucault’s life and works written by Foucault’s life-partner Daniel Defert
- Includes a bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English, cross-referenced to the standard French edition Dits et Ecrits
Notes on the Editors and Contributors ix
List of Abbreviations xiv
Introduction 1
Part I Landmarks 9
1 Chronology 11
Daniel Defert
2 History of Madness 84
Colin Gordon
3 The Order of Things 104
Patrice Maniglier
4 On the Powers of the False: Foucault’s Engagements with the Arts 122
Joseph J. Tanke
5 Discipline and Punish 137
Alan D. Schrift
6 Reading The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 154
Richard A. Lynch
7 From Resistance to Government: Foucault’s Lectures 1976–1979 172
Paul Patton
8 Foucault’s Untimely Struggle 189
Paul Rabinow
Part II Knowledge and Critique 205
9 Foucault’s Normative Epistemology 207
Linda Martín Alcoff
10 Foucault and the Freudians 226
Wendy Grace
11 Foucault on Critical Agency in Painting and the Aesthetics of Existence 243
Michael Kelly
12 Foucault on Kant, Enlightenment, and Being Critical 264
Marc Djaballah
13 Making History 282
Christopher Falzon
Part III Power and Governmentality 299
14 Power, Resistance, and Freedom 301
Jon Simons
15 From Biopower to Governmentality 320
Johanna Oksala
16 Power and the Subject 337
Amy Allen
17 Power, Politics, Racism 353
Brad Elliott Stone
18 Foucault, Religion, and Pastoral Power 368
Jeremy Carrette
19 Space, Territory, Geography 384
Jeremy W. Crampton
Part IV Sexuality, Gender, and Race 401
20 Toward a Feminist “Politics of Ourselves” 403
Dianna Taylor
21 Infamous Men, Dangerous Individuals, and Violence against Women: Feminist Re-readings of Foucault 419
Chloë Taylor
22 Foucault’s Eros: For an Ethics of Living in Biopower 436
Lynne Huffer
23 The Missing Link: Homo Economicus (Reading Foucault and Bataille Together) 454
Shannon Winnubst
24 Genealogies of Race and Gender 472
David-Olivier Gougelet and Ellen K. Feder
Part V Ethics and Modernity 491
25 Foucault’s Ontology and Epistemology of Ethics 493
James D. Faubion
26 Foucault, Subjectivity, and Technologies of the Self 510
Mark G. E. Kelly
27 The Formation and Self-Transformation of the Subject in Foucault’s Ethics 526
Colin Koopman
28 Foucault, Nature, and the Environment 544
Paul Alberts
Appendix 562
Michel Foucault’s Shorter Works in English: Bibliography and Concordance 562
Richard A. Lynch
Index 593
“Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers.” (Choice, 1 November 2013)
“This Companion will be most useful for an intermediate or advanced student of Foucault. Both the 'chronology' and the bibliography of English works of Foucault are required for any serious study of his work. And the fact that most of the authors in this book have written books on different aspects of Foucault's work means that it can be taken as a proxy for a survey into the current reception of his thought in the Anglophone world.” (Metapsychology, 23 July 2013)