In On the Government of the Living Michel Foucault explicitly links and articulates in an original way two of the main philosophical and political projects he never ceased to pursue in his works of the 1970s and the 1980s: on… Continue Reading
By Jean L. Cohen First I’d like to thank the organizers of this seminar for giving me the chance to discuss Michel Foucault’s 1979-1980 Lectures at the College de France titled in English, On The Government of the Living. Before… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco It is at the beginning of his lectures On the Government of the Living that Michel Foucault explains to his students—to those heterogeneous, even heteroclite set of students he had at the Collège de France—that he… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Foucault’s 1979-1980 lectures On the Government of the Living represent a pivotal double movement in Foucault’s thought, a double movement that has the effect of elaborating the third key dimension to Foucault’s work: namely, the dimension… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, Du gouvernment des vivants. Cours au Collège de France (1979-1980). Michel Senellart, ed. (Gallimard/Le Seuil 2012) ___________, On the Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1970. Graham… Continue Reading
By Luca Provenzano In the course of the seminar discussion on The Birth of Biopolitics, Seyla Benhabib expressed disappointment that Foucault’s own positions were not differentiated from the neoliberal critique he described. Professor Benhabib compared Foucault in this regard to members… Continue Reading
Nancy Fraser, Kendall Thomas, and Richard Brooks discuss Foucault’s eighth lecture series at the Collège de France, Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979). Please watch the video of the seminar here or below. Please read the introductory essays by François Ewald and Bernard Harcourt,… Continue Reading
By Kendall Thomas As it happens, I’ve been reading Michel Foucault’s 1978-1979 Collège de France lectures while preparing and teaching the first classes of a semester long course at Columbia Law School on “Law and Neoliberalism.” The course is a… Continue Reading
By Richard R. W. Brooks My comments on Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics will focus on the distinctions he observes (in discussing neoliberalism) between abstract economic and legal subjects (subject of interests and subject of rights) and actual individuals in… Continue Reading
By Nancy Fraser What interests me most in this rich and fascinating text is Foucault’s contrast between “German ordo-liberalism” and “American anarcho-liberalism.” Evidently, he identifies each of these two “neoliberalisms” with a distinctive form of governmentality—a concept I assume others… Continue Reading