ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book seeks to demonstrate that this is not the whole truth. It contends that if we take a broad and diverse enough look at Foucault’s late aeuvre, it may not be the case that Foucauldianism has lost its critical and resistant edge and become something like an ideological ally of neoliberalism. The book addresses what is probably the most generally discussed and familiar segment in late Foucault, that is, Foucault’s analysis and development of Hellenistic and Roman practices of care of the self and parresia, and his reflections on the critical-transgressive ethos of Enlightenment and modernity. It provides something which has been hitherto lacking in the immense amount of literature on Foucault: an extensive, systematic and in-depth scrutiny of the varieties of affective, sensual and bodily resistance in late Foucault, drawing attention to their parallels as well as their differences.
