Chapter
Introduction: Why Unite Marx and Foucault, and How?
1: The Marx/Foucault Difference: Discipline and Governmentality
1.1: Disciplinary Society/Class Society: Surveillance and Punishment
1.1.1: Foucault’s Discovery of a New Social Order
1.1.2: Disciplines and Class Relations
1.1.3: Analogical Table Foucault/Marx
1.2: Civil Society against Class State: The Collège De France Lectures of 1977–79
1.2.1: Praise versus Critique of the Political Economy?
1.2.2: The Foucauldian Grand Narrative and the Neoliberal Question
1.2.3: Foucault’s Grand Tableau: Civil Society and the Arts of Governing
2: Property-Power and Knowledge-Power
2.1: Foucault Explores the ‘Pole’ that Marx Left in a Grey Zone
2.1.1: Foucault Discerns Knowledge-Power Alongside Proprietor-Power
2.1.2: Why Marx’s Theory Is Missing a ‘Pole’
2.2: Foucault, Theoretician of the Knowledge-Power of ‘Competent-Elites’
2.2.1: ‘The History of Truth’: The True, The Just and The Authentic
2.2.2: The Truths of Government
2.2.3: Refounding the Marxian Project to Admit Foucault
2.3: Foucault, Historian and Critic of ‘Competent-Elites’
2.3.1: The Historical Conditions of Modern ‘Biopolitics’
2.3.2: The Foucauldian Critique of Knowledge-Power: A Politics
3: Marxian Structuralism and Foucauldian Nominalism?
3.1: Micro-Relations of Power and Macro-Relationships of Class
3.1.1: The Foucauldian Concept of Power and the Marxian Concept of Class
3.1.2: The Micro-Macrological Articulation of Class
3.1.3: The Micro-Macrological Articulation of the State
3.2: Apparatuses of Power versus Class Structures
3.2.1: Foucault: Strategies in Relation to ‘Apparatuses of Power’
3.2.2: Marx: Strategies in Relation to ‘Class Structures’
3.3: Shortcomings and Relevance of Marx and Foucault
3.3.1: Class, Sex, Race: A Foucauldian Triptych?
3.3.2: War as an ‘Analyser of Society’
3.3.3: ‘Structure’ or ‘System’? Foucault, Habermas and Others
4: Marx’s ‘Capitalism’ and Foucault’s ‘Liberalism’
4.1: The Historical Productivity of Capitalism
4.1.1: The Political Contradiction of Capitalism
4.1.2: The Productive Contradiction of Capitalism
4.2: The History of ‘Liberalism’
4.2.1: ‘Discipline’ as Productive of Utility-Docility
4.2.2: Liberalism as Productive of Utility-Freedom
4.2.3: Liberalism as Relation between Governors and the Governed
4.2.4: ‘Governmentality’ as Against Self-Government
Elements of Conclusion: A Strategy from Below
Provocation and Interpellation
The Dispersed Order of Strategy from Below
Foucault with Marx
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