Peter Levine, Foucault and neoliberalism on his blog. If you’re intellectually and ideologically eclectic, then you will find important ideas all over the map. It will not surprise you to learn that a person generally associated with the left has benefited from F.O. von Hayek or Gary Becker: leading libertarians. An excellent example is James C. Scott, …
Foucault and Neoliberalism AUFS Event: Daniel Zamora – A Reply: Was Foucault Speaking in His Own Voice?, An und für sich blog, January 6, 2015 First I would like to thank the four contributors and AUFS for devoting this series to the theme of Foucault and neoliberalism. All the interventions are highly stimulating and take …
Originally posted on The Dish:
In an interview discussing a new volume of essays he edited about the French philosopher, Daniel Zamora portrays Foucault, especially in his later years, as more friendly to and fascinated by neoliberals Hayek and Friedman than many of his votaries on the academic left want to believe. Zamora claims to have been…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There are some interesting comments on last week’s thoughts on the Foucault and Neoliberalism debate – here. In particular the points made by Stephen Shapiro and Michael Behrent are worth reading – both are situating the discussion within a wider knowledge of French politics at the time, which is a…
Peter Frase, Beyond the Welfare State, Dec 10, 2014. Jacobin has published Seth Ackerman’s translation of an interesting interview with French sociologist Daniel Zamora, discussing his recent book about Michel Foucault’s affinities with neoliberalism. Zamora rightly points out that the “image of Foucault as being in total opposition to neoliberalism at the end of his …
Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Here. I had been rounding up a post on this but never got around to it, and Stuart makes excellent and helpful points (with the modesty to suggest his views are revisable once the book referenced in the Zamora interview is published). Daniel Zamora’s original interview…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I’ve been away, but several people have been sending me links to a recent string of articles on Foucault’s supposed sympathies to neoliberalism. The start of the debate – in English at least – was the translation of an interview with Daniel Zamora at Jacobin. The interview relates to a…
The recent interview with Daniel Zamora on neoliberalism is causing quite a stir in the English language world at least. Brian Doherty, Concerned Leftists Rediscover Michel Foucault Might Not Have Been As Anti-Market as They’d Like on the reason.com site Daniel W. Drezner, Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian’s best friend, on the Washington Post …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
It’s been two months since the last update on this book. I’ve been working, in and around lots of other things, on the manuscript, though more slowly than I’d hoped. I finished and published my review of On the Government of the Living and Wrong Doing, Truth Telling for Berfrois –…
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My review of Foucault’s lecture courses Du gouvernement du vivants/On the Government of the Living and Mal faire, dire vrai/Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling is now available, open access, at Berfrois. It’s entitled ‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth‘ and it tries to situate these courses in relation to various longer-term projects of Foucault’s. I also say…
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