The Government of Life : Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Nomos of Neoliberalism -- 1. The Fourth Age of Security -- 2. The Law of the Household: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Ira ni an Revolution -- 3. The Risks of Security: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Fear -- Part II. Genealogies of Biopolitics -- 4. A Genealogy of Biopolitics: The Notion of Life in Canguilhem and Foucault -- 5. Power over Life, Politics of Death: Forms of Resistance to Biopower in Foucault -- 6. Identity, Nature, Life: Three Biopolitical Deconstructions -- Part III. Liberalism between Legality and Governmentality -- 7. From Reason of State to Liberalism: The Coup d'État as Form of Government -- 8. Foucault and Rawls: Government and Public Reason -- 9. Foucault and Hayek: Republican Law and Liberal Civil Society -- Part IV. Philosophy as Ethics and Embodiment -- 10. Parrhesia between East and West: Foucault and Dissidence -- 11. The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community: Foucault and the Cynics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

An examination of Foucault's last thought, centered on his ideas about biopolitics, governmentality, and subjectivity. This volume aims to explain why the politics and policies of neoliberalism are best understood as a "government of life" whose effects and consequences still remain to be fathomed.

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