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Michel Foucault’s account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a “subject of” and being “subject to” political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and political consequences of such a dual definition of the subject, by exploring the processes of subjectivation and objectivation through which subjects are produced. Drawing together well-known scholars of Foucaultian thought and critical theory, alongside a newly translated interview with Foucault himself, the book will engage in a serious reconsideration of the notion of “autonomy” beyond the liberal tradition, connecting it to processes of subjectivation. In the face of the ongoing proliferation of analyses using the notion of subjectivation, this book will retrace Foucault’s reflections on it and interrogate the current theoretical and political implications of a series of approaches that mobilize the Foucaultian understanding of the subject in relation to truth and power.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Foucault and the Making of Subjects: Rethinking Autonomy between Subjection and
Subjectivation, Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini and Martina Tazzioli / 1. Foucault, the Iranian Uprising, and the Constitution of a Collective Subjectivity, Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli / 2. There Can't Be Societies without Uprisings, Michel Foucault, Farès Sassine / Part 1: Productions of Subjectivity / 3. From Subjection to Subjectivation: Michel Foucault and the History of Sexuality, Arnold I. Davidson / 4. Foucault, Regimes of Truth, and the Making of the Subject, Daniele Lorenzini / 5. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Case of Sexual Avowal, Judith Butler / Part II: Autonomy, Critique, and the Norms / 6. Philosophy, Critique, and the Present: The Question of Autonomy in Michel Foucault's Thought, Laura Cremonesi / 7. Foucault and the Refusal of Ideology , Orazio Irrera / 8. Becoming a Subject in Relation to Norms, Guillaume le Blanc / Part III: The Power ov

Product details

Published Oct 14 2016
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 200
ISBN 9781786601049
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series New Politics of Autonomy
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Laura Cremonesi

Anthology Editor

Orazio Irrera

Anthology Editor

Daniele Lorenzini

Anthology Editor

Martina Tazzioli

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