The Subject Finds a Voice - Cook, Deborah
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Commentators on Michel Foucault's work have had great difficulty reconciling Foucault's political writings and engagements with his "iron cage" theory of disciplinary society. This collection of essays shows that Foucault's work has an emancipatory thematic which is not inconsistent with his theory. Linking Foucault's earlier work with his more politicised and later writings is his turn towards subjectivity. There is no power without resistance. Foucault's later history of ethics is designed to provide the theoretical foundation for the strategies and tactics of subjects who resist both power and knowledge in disciplinary society.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Commentators on Michel Foucault's work have had great difficulty reconciling Foucault's political writings and engagements with his "iron cage" theory of disciplinary society. This collection of essays shows that Foucault's work has an emancipatory thematic which is not inconsistent with his theory. Linking Foucault's earlier work with his more politicised and later writings is his turn towards subjectivity. There is no power without resistance. Foucault's later history of ethics is designed to provide the theoretical foundation for the strategies and tactics of subjects who resist both power and knowledge in disciplinary society.
Autorenporträt
The Author: Deborah Cook is an assistant professor at the University of Windsor. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Ottawa and was granted a Doctorat de troisième Cycle from the Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. In Paris, she also studied with Foucault at the Collège de France and with Derrida at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. In addition to publishing numerous essays on Foucault, she has also published work on Nietzsche, Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida.