Offers a comprehensive account of Foucault's relationship to neoliberalism that is driven not by polemics but a careful reading of Foucault's texts and political positions.

• Cover
• Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Beyond
• Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Beyond
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
  • Notes
• Chapter 1
  • A Liberal Despite Himself
    • A Capital-Volume-II-Marxist?
    • Foucault versus “Fascization”
    • The Liberal State’s Decreasing Power
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 2
  • A Grand Misunderstanding
    • A German Approach to “Neoliberalism”?
    • Foucault, German Liberalism, and Contemporary Europe
    • The Lessons of German Neoliberalism
    • Notes
• Chapter 3
  • Finding a “Left Governmentality”
    • Foucault against the Postwar Left
    • Neoliberalism beyond Left and Right
    • Foucault and the French “Second Left”
    • Conclusion: What Does Left Mean?
    • Notes
• Chapter 4
  • Foucault’s Early Reading of Marx and the Two Meanings of Humanism
    • Humanism and Anthropology: Reading Marx in the Lille Course
    • Back to Heidegger’s Letter on Humanism
    • The Humanist Double
    • A Tale of Three Quasi-Transcendentals
    • Conclusion: The “Birth” of Biopolitics
    • Notes
• Chapter 5
  • Foucault, Genealogy, Critique
    • Foucault: “The Opening Up of Fields of Problematization”
    • Genealogy: The Will to Know
    • Critique in the Neoliberal Lectures
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 6
  • Foucault on Phobie d’État and Neoliberalism
    • Notes
• Chapter 7
  • Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Iranian Revolution
    • Foucault and the Iranian Reportage
    • Iranian Revolution and Liberalism
    • Conclusions
    • Notes
• Chapter 8
  • Neoliberal Selves
    • Eugenics and Future Discounting: A Short Genealogy of Human Capital
    • Bourdieu: Cultural Capital and the Future of “Class” as a Critique of Human Capital
    • Foucault: A Genealogy of Interest as Moral Conduct
    • The Triumph of Competition and the End of the Future
    • Notes
• Chapter 9
  • Not Fostering Life, and Leaving to Die
    • Notes
• Index
• About the Contributors