The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution

Dean, Mitchell,Zamora, Daniel

ISBN 10: 1804292648 / ISBN 13: 9781804292648

Published by Verso, 2023

Very Good Condition - May show some limited signs of wear and may have a remainder mark. Pages and dust cover are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Seller Inventory # mon0000013247

Synopsis:

Foucault’s personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal politics

Part intellectual history, part critical theory, The Last Man Takes LSD challenges the way we think about both Michel Foucault and modern progressive politics. One fateful day in May 1975, Foucault dropped acid in the southern California desert. In letters reproduced here, he described it as among the most important events of his life, one which would lead him to completely rework his History of Sexuality. That trip helped redirect Foucault’s thought and contributed to a tectonic shift in the intellectual life of the era. He came to reinterpret the social movements of May ’68 and reposition himself politically in France, embracing anti-totalitarian currents and becoming a critic of the welfare state.

Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora examine the full historical context of the turn in Foucault’s thought, which included studies of the Iranian revolution and French socialist politics, through which he would come to appreciate the possibilities of autonomy offered by a new force on the French political scene that was neither of the left nor the right: neoliberalism.

About the Author: Mitchell Dean is Professor of Public Governance and Head of the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School. He is author of the best-selling Governmentality, a title that has been cited in the first edition of Foucault’s lectures and the Oxford English Dictionary.

Daniel Zamora is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is the co-editor of Foucault and Neoliberalism with Michael C. Behrent.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End...
Publisher: Verso
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good