Political Genealogy After Foucault

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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