Foucaults Discipline - The Politics of Subjectivity
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, 1997
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Inside, you?ll find discussions of subjectivity, governance, and the subtle machinery of control that operates not just in prisons or institutions, but in everyday life?yes, even in the act of deciding whether to buy this very book. It?s the sort of reading that makes you pause mid-sentence, look up, and wonder whether you?ve just been socially constructed into agreeing with something. Condition-wise, this copy is listed as Good , which in Crappy Old Books terms means it has lived a life. It may have been read by someone earnest, possibly slightly sleep-deprived, perhaps underlining passages with the intensity of a late-night revelation. Expect light wear, maybe a softened spine, the faint suggestion that ideas have passed through these pages before you. In other words, entirely appropriate for a book about discipline and the shaping of selves. This is not a beach read. It is, however, the sort of book you can carry onto a train and immediately upgrade your intellectual aura by at least 40%. Whether you intend to read it cover to cover, dip in strategically, or simply let it exist nearby as a statement of intent is entirely up to you?and, as Foucault might suggest, perhaps not entirely your own decision anyway. A quietly subversive addition to any shelf, and a very respectable way to say: yes, I?ve considered the politics of subjectivity? or at least I own the book .…
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- Title
- Foucaults Discipline - The Politics of Subjectivity
- Author
- John S Ransom
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822318695
- ISBN 13
- 9780822318699
Foucault’s Discipline demonstrates how Foucault’s valorization of descriptive critique over prescriptive plans of action can be applied to the decisively altered political landscape of the end of this millennium. By reconstructing the philosopher’s arguments concerning the significance of disciplinary institutions, biopower, subjectivity, and forms of resistance in modern society, Ransom shows how Foucault has provided a different way of looking at and responding to contemporary models of government—in short, a new depiction of the political world.
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John S. Ransom is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College.
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