A companion to Foucault [electronic resource] / edited by Christopher Falzon, Timothy OLeary, Jana Sawicki.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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pt. I. Landmarks. Chronology / Daniel Defert ; History of madness / Colin Gordon ; The order of things / Patrice Maniglier ; On the powers of the false : Foucault's engagements with the arts / Joseph J. Tanke ; Discipline and punish / Alan D. Schrift ; Reading The history of sexuality, volume 1 / Richard A. Lynch ; From resistance to government : Foucault's lectures 1976-1979 / Paul Patton ; Foucault's untimely struggle / Paul Rabinow -- pt. II. Knowledge and critique. Foucault's normative epistemology / Linda Martin Alcoff ; Foucault and the Freudians / Wendy Grace ; Foucault on critical agency in painting and the aesthetics of existence / Michael Kelly ; Foucault on Kant, Enlightenment, and being critical / Marc Djaballah ; Making history / Christopher Falzon -- pt. III. Power and governmentality. Power, resistance, and freedom / Jon Simons ; From biopower to governmentality / Johanna Oksala ; Power and the subject / Amy Allen ; Power, politics, racism / Brad Elliott Stone ; Foucault, religion, and pastoral power / Jeremy Carrette ; Space, territory, geography -- pt. IV. Sexuality, gender, and race. Toward a feminist "politics of ourselves" / Dianna Taylor ; Infamous men, dangerous individuals, and violence against women : feminist re-readings of Foucault / Chloë Taylor ; Foucault's eros : for an ethics of living in biopower / Lynne Huffer ; The missing link : homo economicus (reading Foucault and Bataille together) / Shannon Winnubst ; Genealogies of race and gender / David-Olivier Gougelet and Ellen K. Feder -- pt. V. Ethics and modernity. Foucault's ontology and epistemology of ethics / James D. Faubion ; Foucault, subjectivity, and technologies of the self / Mark G.E. Kelly ; The formation and self-transformation of the subject in Foucault's ethics / Colin Koopman ; Foucault, nature, and the environment / Paul Alberts -- Appendix. Michel Foucault's shorter works in English : bibliography and concordance / Richard A. Lynch.

Comprises a collection of essays from established and emerging scholars that represent the most extensive treatment of French philosopher Michel Foucault's works currently available. Comprises a comprehensive collection of authors and topics, with both established and emerging scholars represented - Includes chapters that survey Foucault's major works and others that approach his work from a range of thematic angles - Engages extensively with Foucault's recently published lecture courses from the Collège de France - Contains the first translation of the extensive 'Chronology' of Foucault's life and works written by Foucault's life-partner Daniel Defert - Includes a bibliography of Foucault's shorter works in English, cross-referenced to the standard French edition Dits et Ecrits.