Michael Clifford

Political Genealogy After Foucault

Savage Identities

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Produktbeschreibung

Political Genealogy After Foucault offers a radically new understanding of political freedom. Combining the most powerful elements of Foucault's theories, Michael Clifford produces a methodology for cultural and political critique called "political genealogy" to explore the genesis of modern political identity. At the core of American identity, Clifford argues, is the ideal of the Savage Noble, a hybrid that marries the Native American "savage" with the "civilized" European male. This complex icon animates modern politics and has shaped our understandings of rights, freedom, and power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780415929165
• ISBN-10: 0415929164
• Artikelnr.: 21251272

Autorenporträt

Michael Clifford is Associate Professor of Philosophy with the Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Mississippi State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction: From Noble Savage to Savage Noble
Outline of a Political Genealogy
Part I: The Three Domains of Genealogy
2. The Subject of Political Discourse
The Discourse of Threat: Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition
Discursive Regimes and the Order of the Political
3. Power and the Political Subject
You Are What You Eat: The Perils of Indianization
Disciplinary Power: The Fabrication of Modern Identity
Enunciative Modalities: From Wilderness to Nation
4. Political Subjectivation and Self-Formation
Technologies of the Self: Sex/Ethics/Politics
The Cultivation of Individuality: J.S. Mill's Manual of Autonomous Selfhood
The Political Spectrum: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Ethics of Toleration
Part II: Against Identity
5. Governmentality and the Axes of Political Experience
A Matrix of Experience
The State and/of Governmentality
The Political Technology of Individuals
6. The Most Perfect Freedom
On the polarities of Political Freedom: Rousseau and Nozick
Counter-Memory: Different Freedoms/Freedoms of Difference
Freedom and the Politics of Transformation
7. Genealogy and Other-Politics: Conclusions, Implications, Applications
The Foucault Conundrum
Political Theory on the Horizon
Bibliography