The Last Man Takes LSD

Zamora, Daniel

ISBN 10: 1804292648 / ISBN 13: 9781804292648

Published by Verso Books, 2023

New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # DB-9781804292648

Synopsis:

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 Foucault's lectures and the Oxford English Dictionary.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Last Man Takes LSD
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: PAP
Condition: New