Late Foucault

Marta Faustino is a research fellow at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), where she currently coordinates the Art of Living Research Group. Her main research focus is the relationship between philosophy and therapeutic and self-cultivating practices. She is the author of several articles on Nietzsche, Hadot, Foucault and the Hellenistic philosophers and co-editor of Nietzsche e Pessoa: Ensaios (Tinta-da-China, 2016) and Rostos do Si (Vendaval, 2018). Gianfranco Ferraro is a post-doctoral researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA). His research focuses on philosophical forms of conversion, particularly concerning Foucault, Nietzsche, and the history of utopian thought. Recent publications on this topic include “Da vocação” (2019), “From Merleau-Ponty to Foucault (and Beyond): Towards a Contemporary Ontology of Immanence” (2019), “Exercícios de inactualidade” (2019), and “La conversione del quotidiano: Foucault e l’utopia come tecnica di vita” (2019). He is a member of the Red Iberoamericana Foucault and director of the international journal Thomas Project: A Border Journal for Utopian Thoughts.

Marta Faustino and Gianfranco Ferraro, along with their contributors, have provided us with what might be the definitive guide to Foucault’s thinking and writing in the last five years of his life. The Late Foucault is decidedly the best first place to go on the late Foucault.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Another Word on Foucault’s Final Words, Marta Faustino & Gianfranco Ferraro, The Nova Insitute of Philosophy, Portugal I. Philosophical Practices, Philosophy as Practice 1. Foucault’s Reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life: Genealogy as a Spiritual Exercise, Michael Ure, Monash University, Australia2. Self or Cosmos: Foucault versus Hadot, John Sellars, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK3. The Great Cycle of the World: Foucault and Hadot on the Cosmic Perspective and the Care of the Self, Federico Testa, University of Warwick, UKII. Care of the Self, Care of Others 4. Foucault According to Stiegler: Technics of the Self, Amélie Berger Soraruff, University of Dundee, UK5. Notes Towards a Critical History of Musicalities. Philodemus on the Use of Musical Pleasures and the Care of the Self, Élise Escalle, Paris West University Nanterre, France6. Foucault’s Ultimate Technology, Luca Lupo, University of Calabria, ItalyIII. Ontology of the Present and the Politics of Truth 7. The Care of the Present: On Foucault’s Ontological Machine, Gianfranco Ferraro, The Nova Insitute of Philosophy, Portugal 8. Agonistic Truth: The Issue of Power Between the Will to Knowledge and Government by Truth, Antonio Moretti, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy 9. From Jurisdiction to Veridiction: The Late Foucault’s Shift to Subjectivity, Laurence Barry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelIV. Government of Self, Government of Others10. Understanding Power Through Governmentality, Karim Barakat, Duquesne University, USA / American University of Beirut, Lebanon 11. On Authority: A Discussion Between Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt, Edgar Straehle, University of Barcelona, Spain12. Neoliberal Subjectivity at the Political Frontier, Matko Krce-Ivancic, University of Manchester, UK V. Truth-Telling, Truth-Living 13. Rethinking Confession, Andrea Teti, University of Aberdeen, UK14. Truth-Telling as Therapeutic Practice: On the Tension Between Psychiatric Subjectivation and Parrhesiastic Self-Cultivation, Marta Faustino, The Nova Insitute of Philosophy, Portugal 15. Foucault, the Politics of Ourselves, and the Subversive Truth-Telling of Trauma: Survivors as Parrhesiasts, Kurt Borg, Staffordshire University, UKList of ContributorsIndex