Foucault's Last Decade by Stuart Elden

Foucault's Last Decade by Stuart Elden

On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly after the second and third volumes were published, he was dead.

'Stuart Elden's analytic portrait of Michel Foucault's final years dramatically testifies to the developing strength and power of critical observation that defined his writing and reflection after the "turn" to sexualityElden integrates, brilliantly, the new Foucauldian topics - governmentality, a concern with neoliberalism and contemporary economic thought - with persistent intellectual principles of speaking truth to power. Elden's own thinking sensitively embodies the best critical resources of our period in this elegant consideration, which belongs on the shelves of serious scholars and students alike.'
Paul A. Bové, University of Pittsburgh and Editor, boundary 2

'Elden has produced a masterful text that reconstructs how a "thinker" thinks between failure and success, between the possible and the as-yet unimaginable. This is philosophical inspiration at its most poetic height. Elden teaches us to read Foucault in a new way.'
Eduardo Mendieta, Penn State University

"fascinating"
The Nation

Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick and Monash Warwick Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University.

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ISBN 13	9780745683928
ISBN 10	0745683924
Title	Foucault's Last Decade
Author	Stuart Elden
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2016-04-01
Number of pages	272
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