The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions

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Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Another Word on Foucault’s Final Words Notes References Part One Philosophical Practices, Philosophy as Practice 1 Foucault’s Reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life: Genealogy as a Spiritual Exercise Philosophical Heroism Foucault’s Reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life Genealogy as a Spiritual Exercise Conclusion Notes References 2 Self or Cosmos: Foucault versus Hadot Foucault’s Late Work and its Debt to Hadot Hadot’s Criticisms of Foucault Analysis of Hadot’s Criticisms Conclusion Notes References 3 The Great Cycle of the World: Foucault and Hadot on the Cosmic Perspective and the Care of the Self Hadot’s Critique Government, Life, Self Foucault’s “Cybernetics” Cosmos and Experience in Hadot Foucault on the Knowledge of Nature and the Care of the Self Conclusion Notes References Part Two Care of the Self, Care of Others 4 Foucault According to Stiegler: Technics of the Self Between Subjectivation and Subjection The Technicization of Subjectivation Between the Transcendental and the Empirical Stiegler’s Politics of Care Conclusion References 5 Notes Towards a Critical History of Musicalities: Philodemus on the Use of Musical Pleasures and the Care of the Self The Hupomnēmata and the “Moral Problematization” of “Musical” Pleasures A “Moral Sociology” of Music versus an “Anthropology of Musical Moralities” Notes References 6 Foucault’s Ultimate Technology1 “We Should Not Let Ourselves Be Worried About the Future” A Hierarchy Based on Perception of Temporality Praemeditatio Malorum Meditatio Mortis Conclusion Notes References Part Three Ontology of the Present, Politics of Truth 7 The Care of the Present: On Foucault’s Ontological Machine An Ontological Inquiry Self-Genealogy and the Present as an Ontological Field Care of the Self, Care of Others The Coherence of Incoherence The Care of the Present as a Philosophical Task Notes References 8 Agonistic Truth: The Issue of Power Between the Will to Knowledge and Government by Truth Lectures on the Will to Know: Polemic Truth Submitting to Truth Conclusion Notes References 9 From Jurisdiction to Veridiction: The Late Foucault’s Shift to Subjectivity Power/Knowledge and the First Reading of Homer (1970–1) From Jurisdiction . . . . . . To Veridiction The Second Reading of Homer (1981) Conclusion Notes References Part Four Government of Self, Government of Others 10 Understanding Power Through Governmentality Foucault’s Kantian Method Nominalism and Empiricism in Foucault’s Work Governmentality and Power—The New Conception of Power Conclusion Notes References 11 On Authority: A Discussion Between Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt and the Problem of Authority Michel Foucault: From Power to Governmentality Michel Foucault and the Parrhēsia Authority and the Cynics Notes References 12 Neoliberal Subjectivity at the Political Frontier Post-Marxist Post-Marxism The (Missing) Empty Signifier An Entrepreneur of Himself at the Political Frontier Situating the Centrality of Neoliberal Subjectivity Laissez-faire Turned into Do-not-laissez-faire Abolishing Economic Reductionism The State is not a Special Organism Conclusion Notes References Part Five Truth-Telling, Truth-Living 13 Rethinking Confession Avowal and Confession in Foucault’s “Early Years,” 1954–74 The Avowal and its Economies of Power: From The Will to Know to the Stanford Lectures History of Sexuality, vol. 1: The Will to Know The Government of the Living Pastoral Power in the Stanford Lectures Defining the Avowal: Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling Avowal and Pastoral Power: Les aveux de la chair The Formation of a New Experience Avowal and Pastoral Power Conclusion Notes References 14 Truth-Telling as Therapeutic Practice: On the Tension Between Psychiatric Subjectivation and Parrhesiastic Self-Cultivation1 Truth-Telling as a Therapeutic Practice in Philosophy and Psychiatry The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Modern Psychotherapy Revisited: A Foucauldian Approach Notes References 15 Foucault, the Politics of Ourselves, and the Subversive Truth-Telling of Trauma: Survivors as Parrhesiasts Foucault on Rivière and Barbin: Discourse, Power, Confession Beyond Confession: Self-Writing and the Risky Truth- Telling of Parrhēsia Self-Narration Between/Beyond the Personal and the Political Survivors as Parrhesiasts: The Subversive Truth-Telling of Trauma Conclusion: Narrating Otherwise Notes References List of Contributors Index