Political Genealogy After Foucault

Combining the most powerful elements of Foucault's theories, Clifford produces a methodology for cultural and political critique called "political genealogy" to explore the genesis of modern political identity. At the core of American identity, Clifford argues, is the ideal of the "Savage Noble," a hybrid that married the Native American "savage" with the "civilized" European male. This complex icon animates modern politics, and has shaped our understandings of rights, freedom, and power.

Preface; 1. Introduction: From Noble Savage to Savage Noble; Outline of a Political Genealogy; Part I: The Three Domains of Genealogy; 2. The Subject of Political Discourse; The Discourse of Threat: Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition; Discursive Regimes and the Order of the Political; 3. Power and the Political Subject; You Are What You Eat: The Perils of Indianization; Disciplinary Power: The Fabrication of Modern Identity; Enunciative Modalities: From Wilderness to Nation; 4. Political Subjectivation and Self-Formation; Technologies of the Self: Sex/Ethics/Politics; The Cultivation of Individuality: J.S. Mill's Manual of Autonomous Selfhood; The Political Spectrum: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Ethics of Toleration; Part II: Against Identity; 5. Governmentality and the Axes of Political Experience; A Matrix of Experience; The State and/of Governmentality; The Political Technology of Individuals; 6. The Most Perfect Freedom; On the polarities of Political Freedom: Rousseau and Nozick; Counter-Memory: Different Freedoms/Freedoms of Difference; Freedom and the Politics of Transformation; 7. Genealogy and Other-Politics: Conclusions, Implications, Applications; The Foucault Conundrum; Political Theory on the Horizon; Bibliography