Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications Since 1984

In Foucault Beyond Foucault Jeffrey Nealon argues that critics have too hastily abandoned Foucault's mid-career reflections on power, and offers a revisionist reading of the philosopher's middle and later works. Retracing power's "intensification" in Foucault, Nealon argues that forms of political power remain central to Foucault's concerns. He allows us to reread Foucault's own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that have taken place since the philosopher's death in 1984. In this, the book stages an overdue encounter between Foucault and post-Marxist economic history.

Author: Jeffrey Nealon
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 11/12/2007
Pages: 146
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.35w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780804757027

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 8

About the Author
Jeffrey T. Nealon is Professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction (1993), Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity (1998), and The Theory Toolbox (2003).