Foucault's new domains
This book explores the influence of Foucaults later writings on basic theoretical and research concerns in the social sciences. The introduction contextualizes the development of Foucaults writings within a biographical frame and leads into Foucaults Collge de France lecture, Kant on Enlightenment and revolution which (along with Colin Gordons commentary) raises the issue crucial to Foucaults latter project: the relationship between reason and liberty. The answer suggestedinvolving a reformulation of the relationship between the subject and powerconnects with the issues raised in subsequent chapters, including Pasquinos focus on the relationship between the governmentality of the modern state and the self-governing individual and Meurets analysis of the link between Adam Smiths novel conception of political economy and the emergent political structures of modern capitalist states. The following four chapters all extend Foucaults insights into new domains of social analysis: namely, the role of language in constructing and governing the economy (Miller and Rose), the shifting relations between sovereignty and responsibility in the welfare state (Donzelot), the role of the professional expert in constructing new social realities amenable to governance (Johnson), the significance of the technologies of government in the development of a political rationality of the humanities (Hunter). In the final chapter Bevis, Cohen and Kendall subject Foucaults last major enterprise, the history of sexuality, to a critique, the criteria of which are derived from Foucaults own methodological measures of adequacythat it be a history of the present which enables us to think in novel ways and facilitates action.
By showing how Foucaults writings increasingly influence and reconstruct social theory and analysis the book will appeal to a wide range of social scientists and other readers.
Mike Gane is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Loughborough and Terry Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester.
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Foucault's new domains/[edited by] Mike Gane and Terry Johnson.
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1. Power (Social sciences) 2. Individualism. 3. Critical theory. 4. Foucault, Michel. I. Gane, Mike. II. Johnson, Terry.
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Phil Bevis is presently working on a book, The Birth and Death of the Author, concerned with the technologies of the self and the changing positions of the reader of the novel. It examines the accumulated historical series of prefixed biographical sketches of a sixteenth-century Spanish writer who died on the same day as Shakespeare.
Michle Cohen teaches French and Womens Studies at Richmond College, London. She is working on a poststructuralist history of the learning of French in England in relation to gender subjectivation, and has published several articles on the subject.
Jacques Donzelot is Matre de Conference in Political Science and Director of the Centre dEtudes des Politiques Sociales in Paris.
Mike Gane teaches in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He has recently published two studies on the French writer Jean Baudrillard, published by Routledge.
Colin Gordon works on medical informatics for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He has been active as translator, editor and author. He was recently a contributor to and, with Peter Miller, a co-editor of The Foucault Effect (Harvester, 1991).
Ian Hunter teaches in the Faculty of Humanities, Griffith University, Brisbane. He is the author of Culture and Government: Emergence of Literary Education (Macmillan, 1988) and co-author (with D.Saunders and D.Williamson) of On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law (Macmillan, 1992). He is currently working on a genealogy of post-Kantian humanism as a spiritual discipline.
Terry Johnson is Professor of Sociology at Leicester University and is currently working on a book on the relationship between expertise and the state.
Gavin Kendall is Lecturer is Psychology at Lancaster University.
Denis Meuret works for the Ministry of National Education in Paris. He is engaged in research on the history of ideas in economics and management.
Peter Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Domination and Power (Routledge, 1987), a comparative study of the work of Michel Faucault and the Frankfurt School. Together with Nikolas Rose he is the author of The Power of Psychiatry (Polity Press, 1986), and is also a co-editor, with Colin Gordon, of The Foucault Effect (Harvester, 1991). He is Associate Editor of the journal Accounting, Organizations and Society .
Pasquale Pasquino, born 1948, working at CNRS (CREA) at Paris, has been Visiting Professor at the Collge de France and published various articles on the constitutional theory of the French Revolution and the Weimar Republic; his current work is on political thought (Machiavelli, Hobbes and the English civil war).
Nikolas Rose is Professor and Head of Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is co-ordinator of the History of the Present Network, an international network of researchers whose work has been influenced by the writings of Michel Foucault. He is the author of The Psychological Complex: Psychology, Politics and Society in England, 18691939 (Routledge, 1985) and joint author, with Peter Miller, of The Power of Psychiatry (Polity Press, 1986). He is currently writing a social and intellectual history of the Tavistock Clinic and Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (with Peter Miller) and researching changing forms and strategies of political power.
