Foucault Now

Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's
most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume
contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been
done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been
put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together a group of esteemed
scholars, recognized for their command of and insights into
Foucault's oeuvre. They demonstrate the many respects in which
Foucault's project of an ontology of the present remains vital and
continues to yield compelling insights and show that an ontology of
the present is restricted to no particular terrain, but instead
ranges widely and on paths that frequently intersect.

The essays in this much-needed new collection address the key
components of Foucault's thought, ranging from his approach to
power, biopolitics and parrhesia to analysis of key texts such as
Folie et Déraison and Histoire de la
sexualité.

This collection will spark debate amongst students and scholars
alike and demonstrates that that every further encounter with
Foucault's corpus is more likely than not to demand a revisiting of
interpretations already formulated, conclusions already drawn, uses
already devised.

Contributors include Didier Eribon, Eric Fassin, John Forrester,
Ian Hacking, Lynne Huffer, Colin Koopman, James Laidlaw, Laurence
McFalls, Mariella Pandolfi, Paul Rabinow and Cary Wolfe.

Auteur
James Faubion is professor of anthropology at Rice University. His previous publications include "Foucault's Genealogy of Ethics," in A Companion to Moral Anthropology, edited by Didier Fassin (Wiley, 2012) and An Anthropology of Ethics (Cambridge, 2011) with George Marcus, ed.

Résumé
Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together a group of esteemed scholars, recognized for their command of and insights into Foucault's oeuvre. They demonstrate the many respects in which Foucault's project of an ontology of the present remains vital and continues to yield compelling insights and show that an ontology of the present is restricted to no particular terrain, but instead ranges widely and on paths that frequently intersect.

The essays in this much-needed new collection address the key components of Foucault's thought, ranging from his approach to power, biopolitics and parrhesia to analysis of key texts such as Folie et Déraison and Histoire de la sexualité.

• • This collection will spark debate amongst students and scholars alike and demonstrates that that every further encounter with Foucault's corpus is more likely than not to demand a revisiting of interpretations already formulated, conclusions already drawn, uses already devised.

  Contributors include Didier Eribon, Eric Fassin, John Forrester, Ian Hacking, Lynne Huffer, Colin Koopman, James Laidlaw, Laurence McFalls, Mariella Pandolfi, Paul Rabinow and Cary Wolfe.

Contenu

Acknowledgements vii

Contributors viii

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction: The Use of Foucault 1

James D. Faubion

Part I: Object Lessons

1 The Undefined Work of Freedom: Foucault's Genealogy and
the Anthropology of Ethics 23

James Laidlaw

2 Déraison 38

Ian Hacking

3 Foucault's Evil Genius 52

Lynne Huffer

4 Toward an Ethics of Subjectivation: French Resistances to
Psychoanalysis in the 1970s 71

Didier Eribon

5 Michel Foucault's Critical Empiricism Today: Concepts
and Analytics in the Critique of Biopower and Infopower 88

Colin Koopman

6 Foucault's Face: The Personal is the Theoretical
112

John Forrester

Part II: Cases in Point

7 Biopower, Sexual Democracy, and the Racialization of Sex
131

Eric Fassin

8 "A New Schema of Politicization": Thinking Humans,
Animals, and Biopolitics with Foucault 152

Cary Wolfe

9 Parrhesia and Therapeusis: Foucault on and in the World of
Contemporary Neoliberalism 168

Laurence McFalls and Mariella Pandolfi

10 Foucault, Marx, Neoliberalism: Unveiling Undercover Boss
188

Toby Miller

11 Assembling Untimeliness: Permanently and Restively 203

Paul Rabinow

12 Constantine Cavafy: A Parrhesiast for the Cynic of the Future
225

James D. Faubion

References 243

Index 264