Mitchell Dean is Professor of politics and Head of Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and formerly professor of sociology at Macquarie University (Sydney) and the University of Newcastle. He is author of the bestselling Governmentality, a title that has been cited in the first edition of Foucault’s lectures and the Oxford English Dictionary. Daniel Zamora is a professor of sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He works on the history of social policy, of inequality and modern intellectual history. He is the co-of Foucault and Neoliberalism with Michael C. Behrent (Polity, 2015). His writing has appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique, Jacobin, Los Angeles Review of Books and Dissent among others.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Last Man Takes LSD
1. The Birth of a Controversy
Foucault and the liberal arts of government
Foucault in his present
Neoliberalism
The intellectual
2. Searching for a Left Governmentality
Foucault against the post-war Left
Neoliberalism beyond Right and Left
Towards a ‘new political culture’
3. Beyond the Sovereign Subject: Against Interpretation
Against the sovereignty of the author
Th e rise and fall of the modern subject
4. Ordeals: Personal and Political
Veridiction and forms of truth
Experimentation and knowledge through the ordeal
A ‘political spirituality’ against the sovereign
5. The Revolution Beheaded
Th e self as a battlefield
Resistance as ‘desubjectification’
Proliferation against power
Neoliberalism: a framework for pluralism
An ‘intelligent use’ of neoliberalism
6. Foucault’s Normativity
Sexuality and morality
Th e revolution
Inequality and neoliberal governmentality
The California Foucault
7. Rogue Neoliberalism and Liturgical Power
The 1970s: coming down
Towards a left governmentality
Confessional civil war
Epilogue
Afterword
Index
