Introduction: Thinking after Michel Foucault

This Introduction to the Special Issue of Theory, Culture & Society on Michel Foucault draws out from the papers included the possibilities for new critiques of the present and new directions for the future, both for research in the social sciences and for imagining alternative ways of being. It...

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Published inTheory, culture & society Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 1 - 11
Main Authors Venn, Couze, Terranova, Tiziana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2009
Subjects
Biopolitics
Foucault, Michel
History of Political Science
History of Sociology
Methodology
Neoliberalism
Power
Social theory
Subjectivity
biopolitics
neoliberalism
subjectivity
power
life
methodology
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Summary:This Introduction to the Special Issue of Theory, Culture & Society on Michel Foucault draws out from the papers included the possibilities for new critiques of the present and new directions for the future, both for research in the social sciences and for imagining alternative ways of being. It highlights the innovative aspects of all the papers, and thus demonstrates that, in spite of the shortcomings in Foucault’s work which are picked out in the papers, his explorations of power, subjectivity and what it means to be and to think continue to be relevant as a starting point for a range of reflections about our own times.
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ISSN:0263-2764
1460-3616
DOI:10.1177/0263276409353776