The late Foucault : ethical and political questions
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The late Foucault : ethical and political questions
（Re-inventing philosophy as a way of life）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western intellectual life and debate. The recent publication of his last lecture courses at the College de France (1981-1984), together with the short texts, essays, and interviews from the same period, have sparked new interest in his work, allowing for a new understanding of his philosophical trajectory and challenging several interpretations produced over the last few decades.
In this later phase of his thinking, Foucault deepens and expands the course of his preceding works on the genealogy of subjectivity, while at the same time adding a significant ethical and political dimension to it. His focus on the ancient ethics of care of the self and technologies of self-constitution during this period adds important nuances to his previous positions on power, truth, and subjectivity, shedding new light on his philosophical endeavour as a whole and situating his reflections at the centre of current moral debates.
Focusing on the last stage of Foucault's thought, this book brings together international scholars to relaunch the critical debate on the significance of Foucault's so-called "ethical turn" and to discuss the ways in which the perspectives offered by Foucault in this period might help us to unravel modernity, giving us the tools to understand and transform our present, ethically and politically.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Another Word on Foucault's Final Words, Marta Faustino & Gianfranco Ferraro, The Nova Insitute of Philosophy, Portugal
I. Philosophical Practices, Philosophy as Practice
1. Foucault's Reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life: Genealogy as a Spiritual Exercise, Michael Ure, Monash University, Australia
2. Self or Cosmos: Foucault versus Hadot, John Sellars, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
3. The Great Cycle of the World: Foucault and Hadot on the Cosmic Perspective and the Care of the Self, Federico Testa, University of Warwick, UK
II. Care of the Self, Care of Others
4. Foucault According to Stiegler: Technics of the Self, Amelie Berger Soraruff, University of Dundee, UK
5. Notes Towards a Critical History of Musicalities. Philodemus on the Use of Musical Pleasures and the Care of the Self, Elise Escalle, Paris West University Nanterre, France
6. Foucault's Ultimate Technology, Luca Lupo, University of Calabria, Italy
III. Ontology of the Present and the Politics of Truth
7. The Care of the Present: On Foucault's Ontological Machine, Gianfranco Ferraro, The Nova Insitute of Philosophy, Portugal
8. Agonistic Truth: The Issue of Power Between the Will to Knowledge and Government by Truth, Antonio Moretti, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy
9. From Jurisdiction to Veridiction: The Late Foucault's Shift to Subjectivity, Laurence Barry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
IV. Government of Self, Government of Others
10. Understanding Power Through Governmentality, Karim Barakat, Duquesne University, USA / American University of Beirut, Lebanon
11. On Authority: A Discussion Between Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt, Edgar Straehle, University of Barcelona, Spain
12. Neoliberal Subjectivity at the Political Frontier, Matko Krce-Ivancic, University of Manchester, UK
V. Truth-Telling, Truth-Living
13. Rethinking Confession, Andrea Teti, University of Aberdeen, UK
14. Truth-Telling as Therapeutic Practice: On the Tension Between Psychiatric Subjectivation and Parrhesiastic Self-Cultivation, Marta Faustino, The Nova Insitute of Philosophy, Portugal
15. Foucault, the Politics of Ourselves, and the Subversive Truth-Telling of Trauma: Survivors as Parrhesiasts, Kurt Borg, Staffordshire University, UK
List of Contributors
Index
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