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Foucault in an Age of Terror

Essays on Biopolitics and the Defence of Society

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  1. Stephen Morton

    1. University of Southampton, UK

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  2. Stephen Bygrave

    1. University of Southampton, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephen Morton, Stephen Bygrave
    Pages 1-13

  3. Life Struggles: War, Discipline and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault

    • Julian Reid
    Pages 14-42

  4. Poetry Must Be Defended: Post-Waterloo Responses to ‘Power’s Ode to Itself’

    • Simon Bainbridge
    Pages 43-62

  5. Sovereignty, Biopolitics and the Use of Literature: Michel Foucault and Kathy Acker

    • Alex Houen
    Pages 63-87

  6. Michel Foucault: Biopolitics and Biology

    • John Marks
    Pages 88-105

  7. Biopolitics, Biological Racism and Eugenics

    • Clare Hanson
    Pages 106-117

  8. Some Reflections on Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended and the Idea of ‘Race’

    • David Macey
    Pages 118-132

  9. War and Peace, or Governmentality as the Ruin of Democracy

    • Lucy Hartley
    Pages 133-151

  10. Necropolitics

    • Achille Mbembe
    Pages 152-182

  11. Torture, Terrorism and Colonial Sovereignty

    • Stephen Morton
    Pages 183-195

  12. ‘Manual for a Raid’ and ‘Henslowe’s Diary’: Foucault and the Multiple Meanings of the Document

    • Rebecca Fensome
    Pages 196-214

  13. Foucault, Auden and Two New York Septembers

    • Stephen Bygrave
    Pages 215-229

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 230-234
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About this book

This book focuses on the relationship between literary culture, power, society and war. It assesses 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 well as social and political thought.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Southampton, UK

    Stephen Morton, Stephen Bygrave

About the editors

SIMON BAINBRIDGE is Professor of Romantic Studies and Co-Director of the Wordsworth Cen Lancaster University, UK REBECCA FENSOME works on representations of Islam in the Renaissance, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK CLAIRE HANSON is Professor of English, University of Southampton, UK LUCY HARTLEY is an Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Department of English, University of Michigan, USA ALEX HOUEN teaches English and American Studies at University of Sheffield, UK DAVID MACEY is an independent scholar and translator JOHN MARKS is Reader in French, Nottingham Trent University, UK ACHILLE MBEMBE is Research Professor in the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa JULIAN REID is a Lecturer in War Studies, Kings College, London, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Foucault in an Age of Terror

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Biopolitics and the Defence of Society

  • Editors: Stephen Morton, Stephen Bygrave

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584334

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57433-5Published: 29 May 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36518-0Published: 01 January 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58433-4Published: 29 May 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 234

  • Topics: Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Theory, Ethics

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