The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution

Mitchell Dean

ISBN 10: 1839761393 / ISBN 13: 9781839761393

Published by Verso, 2021

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR011636870

Synopsis:

How Michel Foucault, drugs, California and the rise of neoliberal politics in 1970s France are all connected
In May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the desert in southern California. He described it as the most important event of his life which would lead him to completely rework his History of Sexuality. His focus now would not be on power relations but on the experiments of subjectivity, and the care of the self. Through this lens he would reinterpret the social movements of May 68 and position himself politically in France in relation to the emergent ant-totalitarian and anti-welfare state currents. He would also come to appreciate the possibilities of autonomy offered by a new force on the French political scene that was neither of the Left nor the Right: neoliberalism.

About the Author: Mitchell Dean is Professor of politics and Head of Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and formerly professor of sociology at Macquarie University (Sydney) and the University of Newcastle. He is author of the bestselling Governmentality, a title that has been cited in the first edition of Foucaults lectures and the Oxford English Dictionary. Daniel Zamora is a professor of sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He works on the history of social policy, of inequality and modern intellectual history. He is the co-of Foucault and Neoliberalism with Michael C. Behrent (Polity, 2015). His writing has appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique, Jacobin, Los Angeles Review of Books and Dissent among others.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End...
Publisher: Verso
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good