4. A Genealogy of Biopolitics: The Notion of Life in Canguilhem and Foucault

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Abbreviations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The Nomos of Neoliberalism
7. 1. The Fourth Age of Security 17
8. 2. The Law of the House hold: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Iranian Revolution 29
9. 3. The Risks of Security: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Fear 59
10. Part II. Genealogies of Biopolitics
11. 4. A Genealogy of Biopolitics: The Notion of Life in Canguilhem and Foucault 77
12. 5. Power over Life, Politics of Death: Forms of Resistance to Biopower in Foucault 98
13. 6. Identity, Nature, Life: Three Biopolitical Deconstructions 112
14. Part III. Liberalism between Legality and Governmentality
15. 7. From Reason of State to Liberalism: The Coup d’État as Form of Government 127
16. 8. Foucault and Rawls: Government and Public Reason 141
17. 9. Foucault and Hayek: Republican Law and Liberal Civil Society 163
18. Part IV. Philosophy as Ethics and Embodiment
19. 10. Parrhesia between East and West: Foucault and Dissidence 187
20. 11. The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community: Foucault and the Cynics 208
21. Notes 225
22. Bibliography 257
23. List of Contributors 277
24. Index 281