Is there a biopolitical subject?

Authors

  • Frédéric Gros Professor of Political Philosophy at the Université Paris Est Créteil. He also teaches at Sciences Po Paris and at École Nationale de Magistrature

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/2877

Keywords:

Michel Foucault, Biopolitics, Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Capitalism, Subject

Abstract

This article explores the link between liberalism and biopolitics in Foucault, through the analyses of the 1979 Lecture at the Collège de France The Birth of Biopolitics

Author Biography

Frédéric Gros, Professor of Political Philosophy at the Université Paris Est Créteil. He also teaches at Sciences Po Paris and at École Nationale de Magistrature

He established and edited Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France (1982, 1983,1984 – edited by Seuil/Gallimard/Hautes-Études in 2001, 2008, 2009)

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Published

2013-02-07

Issue

No. 4-1 (2013): Places and Figures of the Subject

Section

Essays

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