Foucault and the Making of Subjects

ISBN 10: 1786601044 / ISBN 13: 9781786601049

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Foucault and the Making of Subjects
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786601044
• ISBN 13: 9781786601049
• Binding: Gebunden
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Michel Foucault’s account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a “subject of” and being “subject to” political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and political consequences of such a dual definition of the subject, by exploring the processes of subjectivation and objectivation through which subjects are produced. Drawing together well-known scholars of Foucaultian thought and critical theory, alongside a newly translated interview with Foucault himself, the book will engage in a serious reconsideration of the notion of “autonomy” beyond the liberal tradition, connecting it to processes of subjectivation. In the face of the ongoing proliferation of analyses using the notion of subjectivation, this book will retrace Foucault’s reflections on it and interrogate the current theoretical and political implications of a series of approaches that mobilize the Foucaultian understanding of the subject in relation to truth and power.

About the Author

Laura Cremonesi specialises in 20th Century French Philosophy and has published articles and
book chapters on Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot. She has published a book on Foucault’s
interpretation of the ancient world, Michel Foucault e il mondo antico. Spunti per una critica
dell’attualità (ETS, 2008), and translated from French into Italian the book by Pierre Hadot, Études
de philosophie ancienne (Les Belles Lettres, 2010): Studi di filosofia antica (ETS, 2015).

Orazio Irrera is Associate Researcher at the Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne,
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal
materiali foucaultiani and the co-director of the permanent workshop “Race and Colonialism:
On the Political Epistemologies of Decolonisation” at the Collège international de Philosophie. He
is the co-editor of Foucault e le genalogie del dir-vero (Cronopio, 2014) and La pensée politique de
Foucault (Kimé, 2016).

Daniele Lorenzini is Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Paris-Est
Créteil. He is the author most recently of Éthique et politique de soi: Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les
techniques de l’ordinaire (Vrin, 2015) and the co-editor of Michel Foucault’s lectures About the
Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self (The University of Chicago Press, 2015), Qu’est-ce que
la critique? Suivi de La culture de soi (Vrin, 2015), and Discours et vérité (Vrin, 2016). He is also a
member of the editorial board of the journal materiali foucaultiani.

Martina Tazzioli is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Aix-Marseille and Research
Assistant at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Spaces of Governmentality:
Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), co-author of Tunisia
as a Revolutionized Space of Migration (Palgrave Pivot, 2016), and co-editor of Foucault and the
History of Our Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). She is also a member of the editorial board of
the journal materiali foucaultiani.