Foucault's discipline : the politics of subjectivity / John S. Ransom.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Rethinking "Critique" -- I. Confronting New Forms of Power -- II. Disciplines and the Individual -- III. Governmentality and Population -- IV. Genealogy in the Disciplinary Age -- V. The "Plebeian Aspect" -- VI. Politics, Norms, and the Self.

In Foucault's Discipline, John S. Ransom extracts a distinctive vision of the political world - and oppositional possibilities within it - from the welter of disparate topics and projects Michel Foucault pursued over his lifetime. Uniquely, Ransom presents Foucault as a political theorist in the tradition of Weber and Nietzsche, and specifically examines Foucault's work in relation to the political tradition of liberalism and the Frankfurt School.

By concentrating primarily on Discipline and Punish and the later Foucauldian texts, Ransom provides a fresh interpretation of this controversial philosopher's perspectives on concepts such as freedom, right, truth, and power.