Foucault in an age of terror [electronic resource] : rethinking biopolitics and the defence of society / Stephen Morton and Stephen Bygrave.

Rethinking Foucault in an Age of Terror focuses on the relationship between literary culture, power, society and war, assessing the critical importance of Michel Foucault's lecture series Society Must Be Defended for contemporary debates about war and terror in literary and cultural studies, as...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Morton, Stephen, 1972-
Corporate Author: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
Other Authors: Bygrave, Stephen, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Life struggles : war, discipline, and biopolitics in the thought of Michel Foucault
  • Poetry must be defended : post-Waterloo responses to Power's ode to itself
  • Sovereignty, biopolitics, and the use of literature : Michel Foucault and Kathy Acker
  • Michel Foucault : biopolitics and biology
  • Biopolitics, biological racism, and eugenics
  • Some reflections on Foucault's society must be defended and the idea of race
  • Necropolitics Achille Mbembe
  • Torture, terrorism, and colonial sovereignty
  • Manual for a raid and Henslowe's diary : Foucault and the multiple meanings of the document
  • Foucault, Auden, and two New York Septembers.