Foucault Beyond Foucault (Paperbak)

In Foucault Beyond Foucault Jeffrey Nealon argues that critics have too hastily abandoned Foucault´s mid-career reflections on power, and offers a revisionist reading of the philosopher´s middle and later works. Retracing power´s "intensification" in Foucault, Nealon argues that forms of political power remain central to Foucault´s concerns. He allows us to reread Foucault´s own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that have taken place since the philosopher´s death in 1984. In this, the book stages an overdue encounter between Foucault and post-Marxist economic history.