The technological mutations of the apparatus of production, the division of labour and the elaboration of the disciplinary techniques sustained an ensemble of very close relations (cf. Marx, Capital, vol. i, chapter XIII and the very interesting analysis in Guerry and Deleule). Each makes the other possible and necessary; each provides a model for the other.' --Michael Foucault

The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been expropriated and re-engineered through successive stages of capitalism; and how capitalism's transformation of the body is related to the rise of scientific psychology and social science disciplines complicit with modern regimes of control. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault cited Guery and Deleule in order to link Marx's diagnosis of capitalism with his own critique of power/knowledge. The Productive Body brings together Marxism and theories of the body-machine for the goal of political revolution.
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What can a body do under capitalism? Ground-making explanation that links Marx to Foucault.

Product details

ISBN
9781780995762
Published
2014-03-28
Publisher
Collective Ink; John Hunt Publishing
Weight
194 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
141 mm
Thickness
10 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
156

Biographical note

Didier Deleule is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Universite de Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Defense and President of the Societe Fran���aise de Philosophie. Fran���ois Guery is Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Universite Jean Moulin, Lyon. Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro are Professors, respectively, at the universities of Kansas and Warwick.