This book examines Foucault's political framework for connecting political authority with practices of freedom. It starts from the older Foucault's claim that where there is obedience there cannot be government by truth. Then it shows how this claim runs like a red thread through his entire life project.

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Henrik P. Bang is Professor of Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Australia. He publishes extensively within the fields of political participation and governance. He is most well-known for his concepts of the everyday maker and culture governance.

Inhalt
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Structure of the Book
PART I: THE CIRCLE OF PARRHESIA AND DEMOCRACY

1. Foucault's Political Challenge
2. Political Authority at the Core of the Political
3. Foucault's Postfoundationalism
   PART II: PROBLEMATIZiNG MODERN SOVEREIGNTY AND DISCIPLINE
4. The 'Modern' Alliance Between Science and Hierarchy Anti-Psychiatry: Critiquing the Psychiatric Regime of Truth
5. Class Rule in the Name of Democracy
6. Recoding Sovereignty and Discipline
7. From Discipline to Biopower
   PART III: THE POLITICAL BEYOND SOVEREIGNTY
8. The Notion of Unlimited Statist Hegemony
9. From Sovereignty to Security and Police
10. Security and Neoliberalism
11. Why Foucault is a not a Neoliberalist Beyond Neoliberal Hegemony
    Bibliography
    Index<B