A Companion to Foucault

For close to half a century, the innovative thought of French philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault has exercised an enormous influence across a wide range of disciplines–and continues to be widely debated in intellectual circles. A Companion to Foucault is the most extensive and up–to–date anthology of explorations of Michel Foucault’s work currently available. Featuring essays from a wide range of established and emerging Foucault scholars, chapters address various thematic aspects of Foucault’s major works, including his recently published courses at the Collège de France. Additional essays consider Foucault’s writings on such topics as knowledge and critique; power and government; sex and gender; ethics and modernity; as well as religion, race, and the environment.  Also featured is the first full translation of Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronology’ of Foucault’s life and works from Dits et Ecrits , along with a comprehensive bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English, cross–referenced to the standard French edition. Indispensable in its own right, A Companion to Foucault sheds important new light on one of the major twentieth–century figures in the world of ideas.

Notes on the Editors and Contributors ix List of Abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 Part I Landmarks 9 1 Chronology 11 Daniel Defert 2 History of Madness 84 Colin Gordon 3 The Order of Things 104 Patrice Maniglier 4 On the Powers of the False: Foucault’s Engagements with the Arts 122 Joseph J. Tanke 5 Discipline and Punish 137 Alan D. Schrift 6 Reading The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 154 Richard A. Lynch 7 From Resistance to Government: Foucault’s Lectures 1976–1979 172 Paul Patton 8 Foucault’s Untimely Struggle 189 Paul Rabinow Part II Knowledge and Critique 205 9 Foucault’s Normative Epistemology 207 Linda Martín Alcoff 10 Foucault and the Freudians 226 Wendy Grace 11 Foucault on Critical Agency in Painting and the Aesthetics of Existence 243 Michael Kelly 12 Foucault on Kant, Enlightenment, and Being Critical 264 Marc Djaballah 13 Making History 282 Christopher Falzon Part III Power and Governmentality 299 14 Power, Resistance, and Freedom 301 Jon Simons 15 From Biopower to Governmentality 320 Johanna Oksala 16 Power and the Subject 337 Amy Allen 17 Power, Politics, Racism 353 Brad Elliott Stone 18 Foucault, Religion, and Pastoral Power 368 Jeremy Carrette 19 Space, Territory, Geography 384 Jeremy W. Crampton Part IV Sexuality, Gender, and Race 401 20 Toward a Feminist “Politics of Ourselves” 403 Dianna Taylor 21 Infamous Men, Dangerous Individuals, and Violence against Women: Feminist Re–readings of Foucault 419 Chloë Taylor 22 Foucault’s Eros: For an Ethics of Living in Biopower 436 Lynne Huffer 23 The Missing Link: Homo Economicus (Reading Foucault and Bataille Together) 454 Shannon Winnubst 24 Genealogies of Race and Gender 472 David–Olivier Gougelet and Ellen K. Feder Part V Ethics and Modernity 491 25 Foucault’s Ontology and Epistemology of Ethics 493 James D. Faubion 26 Foucault, Subjectivity, and Technologies of the Self 510 Mark G. E. Kelly 27 The Formation and Self–Transformation of the Subject in Foucault’s Ethics 526 Colin Koopman 28 Foucault, Nature, and the Environment 544 Paul Alberts Appendix 562 Michel Foucault’s Shorter Works in English: Bibliography and Concordance 562 Richard A. Lynch Index 593

Christopher Falzon is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of Foucault and Social Dialogue (1998), Philosophy Goes to the Movies (2002 & 2007), and co–editor, with Timothy O’Leary, of Foucault and Philosophy (2010). Timothy O’Leary is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on Foucault, including Foucault and the Art of Ethics (2002) and Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book (2009). He is also co–editor, with Christopher Falzon, of Foucault and Philosophy (2010). Jana Sawicki is Carl Vogt Professor of Philosophy at Williams College in Western Massachusetts. She is the author of Disciplining Foucault:  Feminism, Power and the Body (1991) and is guest editor (with Shannon Winnubst) of a special issue of Foucault Studies on Foucault and queer theory. She has written many articles on Foucault, feminism and queer theory.

“Summing Up: Essential.  Upper–division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers.”  ( Choice , 1 November 2013) “This Companion will be most useful for an intermediate or advanced student of Foucault. Both the ′chronology′ and the bibliography of English works of Foucault are required for any serious study of his work. And the fact that most of the authors in this book have written books on different aspects of Foucault′s work means that it can be taken as a proxy for a survey into the current reception of his thought in the Anglophone world.”  ( Metapsychology , 23 July 2013)