The Government Of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, And Neoliberalism

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by  Vanessa Lemm, Miguel Vatter

The Government of Life

The Government of Life
Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism
Edited by Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter
Fordham University Press
New York 2014
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First edition
C on t e n t s
List of Abbreviations ix
Ac know ledg ments xi
Introduction 1
Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter
Part I. The Nomos of Neoliberalism
1. The Fourth Age of Security 17
Frédéric Gros
2. The Law of the H ouse hold: Foucault, Neoliberalism,
and the Iran ia n Revolution 29
Melinda Cooper
3. The Risks of Security: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Fear 59
Thomas Lemke
Part II. Genealogies of Biopolitics
4. A Genealogy of Biopolitics: The Notion of Life
in Canguilhem and Foucault 77
Maria Muhle
5. Power over Life, Politics of Death: Forms
of Re sis tance to Biopower in Foucault 98
Francesco Paolo Adorno
6. Identity, Nature, Life: Three Biopo liti cal Deconstructions 112
Judith Revel
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Part III. Liberalism between Legality and Governmentality
7. From Reason of State to Liberalism: The Coup d’État
as Form of Government 127
Roberto Nigro
8. Foucault and Rawls: Government and Public Reason 141
Paul Patton
9. Foucault and Hayek: Republican Law and Liberal
Civil Society 163
Miguel Vatter
Part IV. Philosophy as Ethics and Embodiment
10. Parrhesia between East and West: Foucault and Dissidence 187
Simona Forti
11. The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community:
Foucault and the Cynics 208
Vanessa Lemm
Notes 225
Bibliography 257
List of Contributors 277
Index 281
A bbr e v i at ions
Note: All titles in this list are by Michel Foucault and frequently cited in
this volume. Other cited works by Foucault appear in the bibliography.
AEW Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Michel
Foucault, 1954–1 984: Volume II. Edited by J. D. Faubion.
New York: New Press, 1998.
BB The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978– 1979.
Translated by G. Burchell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
CT The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others, II:
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983– 1984. Edited by A. Davidson;
translated by G. Burchell. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
DE Dits et Écrits: Tome II, 1976– 1988. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
ECS “ The Ethics of the Concern of the Self as a Practice of Freedom.”
In EEW, 281–3 01.
EEW Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault,
1954– 1984: Volume I. Edited by P. Rabinow. New York:
New Press, 2006.
HS T he Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France,
1981– 1982. Translated by G. Burchell. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005.
OES “ ‘Omnes et Singulatim’: Toward a Critique of Pol iti cal Reason.”
In PEW, 298–3 25.
PEW P ower: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954– 1984: Volume 3. Edited by
J. D. Faubion. New York: New Press, 2000.
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