Lauri Siisiäinen

Foucault, Biopolitics and Resistance

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Produktbeschreibung

This work hopes to offer fresh methodological insights, fruitful for further empirical research on social and political movements in today's world, filling the gap with a book-length study that examines late Foucault's body of texts in a comprehensive manner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781032094304
• ISBN-10: 1032094303
• Artikelnr.: 62151097

Autorenporträt

Lauri Siisiainen is a University Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is interested in political theory and political philosophy (especially continental), as well as in issues of power, government/governmentality, biopolitics and resistance more broadly. He has published extensively on these areas both in English and in Finnish.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I: RESISTANCE AND THE POLITICS OF AUTONOMY: FOUCAULT'S
UNYIELDING DISCOURSES 2. The Hellenistic-Roman/Enlightenment Model of
Resistance 3. Foucauldian Self-Help? Spirituality and Biopolitics in the
21st Century Part II. RESISTANT BODIES AND AFFECTS 4. The Politics of
Aphrodisia and the Gay Mode of Life 5. Aesthetic Counter-Conduct 6.
Aesthetic and Queer Resistance: Intersections and Further Questions Part
III. AFFIRMATIVE BIOPOLITICS AND RESISTANCE 7. From Cynicism to Ars Erotica
8. Foucault and Zen: Spirituality, Resistance and Affirmative Biopolitics
9. Conclusion