ABSTRACT

This major collection brings Foucault's later work into sharp focus and illustrates some of the ways in which it is informing developments in the social sciences. Concise, clear and wide-ranging it provides an essential accessory to the understanding one of the key thinkers in the twentieth century.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

The project of Michel Foucault
ByMike Gane, Terry Johnson

chapter 1|9 pages

Kant on Enlightenment and revolution*

ByMichel Foucault, Colin Gordon

chapter 2|17 pages

Question, ethos, event

Foucault on Kant and Enlightenment
ByColin Gordon

chapter 3|13 pages

Michel Foucault (1926-84)

The Will to Knowledge*
ByPasquale Pasquino, Chloe Chard

chapter 4|26 pages

A political genealogy of political economy

ByDenis Meuret, Graham Burchell

chapter 5|31 pages

Governing economic life

ByPeter Miller, Nikolas Rose

chapter 6|33 pages

The promotion of the social*

ByJacques Donzelot, Graham Burchell

chapter 7|14 pages

Expertise and the state

ByTerry Johnson

chapter 8|40 pages

Personality as a vocation

The political rationality of the humanities
ByIan Hunter

chapter 9|23 pages

Archaeologizing genealogy

Michel Foucault and the economy of austerity
ByPhil Bevis, Michèle Cohen, Gavin Kendall