{"product_id":"foucault-and-liberal-political-economy-power-knowledge-and-freedom-hardcover","title":"Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Pennington\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault from \u003cem\u003ewithin\u003c\/em\u003e the tradition of liberal political economy. Divided into two parts the book commences by demonstrating important commonalities between Foucault's ideas and those of a neglected 'post-modern' stream in liberal political and economic thought. These ideas draw on a social theory emphasising a culturally situated individualism; a philosophy of science highly critical of socio-economic 'scientism' and 'expert rule'; and an understanding of freedom as an open-ended process of 'self-creation' in the face of cultural power relations--a freedom threatened by alignments between state power and more decentred manifestations of power. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart two combines the tools of Foucault's critical social theory with those of a post-modern liberalism to problematise four separate though overlapping 'bio-political' or 'pastoral' \u003cem\u003edispositifs\u003c\/em\u003e in contemporary liberal societies focused on social justice, public health, ecological sustainability, and law and order. Where the Foucauldian and the post-modern liberal approaches suggest that freedom requires a cultural and economic 'creative destruction' that destabilises existing modes of thought and ways of being, the pastoral \u003cem\u003edispositifs\u003c\/em\u003e that seek to 'monitor and correct' multiple pattern anomalies are shown to stifle the space for that creative freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough the book does not engage the question of whether Foucault himself moved towards endorsing liberal political economy, it throws considerable light on how key Foucauldian concerns may be addressed within the liberal tradition, and why Foucauldians may have reason to embrace a reconstituted or post-modern liberalism.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Pennington has been Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy, King's College, University of London, since 2012, and is currently Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society. Prior to King's he taught for twelve years in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He has a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.04 x 9.34 x 6.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47506843599026,"sku":"9780197690529","price":169.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/NtTwCa6r9V9780197690529.webp?v=1779564768","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/foucault-and-liberal-political-economy-power-knowledge-and-freedom-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}