Foucault in an Age of Terror: Essays on Biopolitics and the Defence of Society

Notes on Contributors Introduction Life Struggles: War, Disciplinary Power and Biopolitics; J.Reid 'Power's ode to itself': History, Power and Poetry in the Post-Waterloo Writing of Hazlitt, Byron and Shelley: S.Bainbridge Sovereignty, Biopolitics, and the Use of Literature: Michel Foucault and Kathy Acker; A.Houen Michel Foucault: Biopolitics and Biology; J.Marks Biopower, Biological Racism and Eugenics; C.Hanson Michel Foucault: Defending Society and the Idea of Race; D.Macey War and Peace, or Governmentality as the Ruin of Democracy; L.Hartley Necropolitics; A.Mbembe A Geopolitical Blindspot in Foucault's Thought: Biopolitics, Torture and Indefinite Detention in the Colonial World; S.Morton 'Manual for a Raid' and 'Henslowe's Diary': Foucault and the Multiple Meanings of the Document; R.Fensome Foucault, Auden and two New York Septembers; S.Bygrave Notes Index