Foucault and Absolute Power – Irfan Ajvazi

Table of Contents:

Chapter I: Foucault and Nietzsche
Chapter II: Foucault’s Discourse
Chapter III: The Definition of Resistance
Chapter IV: Foucault’s Power Relations
Chapter V: Foucault and Neoliberalism
Chapter VI: Foucault’s Theories
Chapter VII: Defining Others
Chapter VIII: Foucault and multiplicity
Chapter IX: Biopower and governmentality
Chapter X: The Origin of Power

Foucault actually explicitly stated he was a follower of Nietzsche: “I am simply a Nietzschean, and I try to see, on a number of points, and to the extent that it is possible, with the aid of Nietzsche’s text — but also with anti-Nietzschean theses (which are the nevertheless Nietzschean!) — what can be done in this or that domain. I’m not looking for anything else but l’m really searching for that”.
But thought Foucault considered himself thoroughly Nietzschean, most would argue that there is quite a bit of Heidegger in his work and that he was at least greatly influenced by his interactions with post-structuralism, if not an explicitly post-structuralist thinker.