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The Government of Life The Government of Life Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism Edited by Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter Fordham University Press New York 2014 Copyright © 2014 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be repro- duced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other— except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the pers is- tence or accuracy of URLs for external or third- party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-P ublication Data is available from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America 16 1 5 14 5 4 3 2 1 First edition C on t e n t s List of Abbreviations ix Ac know ledg ments xi Introduction 1 Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter Part I. The Nomos of Neoliberalism 1. The Fourth Age of Security 17 Frédéric Gros 2. The Law of the H ouse hold: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Iran ia n Revolution 29 Melinda Cooper 3. The Risks of Security: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Fear 59 Thomas Lemke Part II. Genealogies of Biopolitics 4. A Genealogy of Biopolitics: The Notion of Life in Canguilhem and Foucault 77 Maria Muhle 5. Power over Life, Politics of Death: Forms of Re sis tance to Biopower in Foucault 98 Francesco Paolo Adorno 6. Identity, Nature, Life: Three Biopo liti cal Deconstructions 112 Judith Revel viii Contents Part III. Liberalism between Legality and Governmentality 7. From Reason of State to Liberalism: The Coup d’État as Form of Government 127 Roberto Nigro 8. Foucault and Rawls: Government and Public Reason 141 Paul Patton 9. Foucault and Hayek: Republican Law and Liberal Civil Society 163 Miguel Vatter Part IV. Philosophy as Ethics and Embodiment 10. Parrhesia between East and West: Foucault and Dissidence 187 Simona Forti 11. The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community: Foucault and the Cynics 208 Vanessa Lemm Notes 225 Bibliography 257 List of Contributors 277 Index 281 A bbr e v i at ions Note: All titles in this list are by Michel Foucault and frequently cited in this volume. Other cited works by Foucault appear in the bibliography. AEW Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954–1 984: Volume II. Edited by J. D. Faubion. New York: New Press, 1998. BB The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978– 1979. Translated by G. Burchell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. CT The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others, II: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983– 1984. Edited by A. Davidson; translated by G. Burchell. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. DE Dits et Écrits: Tome II, 1976– 1988. Paris: Gallimard, 2001. ECS “ The Ethics of the Concern of the Self as a Practice of Freedom.” In EEW, 281–3 01. EEW Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954– 1984: Volume I. Edited by P. Rabinow. New York: New Press, 2006. HS T he Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981– 1982. Translated by G. Burchell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. OES “ ‘Omnes et Singulatim’: Toward a Critique of Pol iti cal Reason.” In PEW, 298–3 25. PEW P ower: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954– 1984: Volume 3. Edited by J. D. Faubion. New York: New Press, 2000. ix