How Does Neoliberalism Form Our Lifes? A Praxeological Approach with Jaeggi and Foucault
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12643147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tivadar Vervoort (0000-0001-9373-377X, Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven (RIPPLE), Leuven, Belgium, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213-234 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Horizons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14409917.2024.2390335 |
| OpenAlex | W4401789190 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 49 |
Michel Foucault’s work has immensely enriched the way critical social theorists understand power. Beyond his work on disciplinary normalisation, Foucault’s genealogy of the modern state has discussed governmental power as the conduct of conduct of subjects and populations. Foucault reserves his understanding of norms and normalisation for explaining the prescriptive force of disciplinary power. Accordingly, he hardly uses the language of norms to explain how neoliberal policies interfere in social conduct. In this paper, I aim to elucidate what kind of normative intervention neoliberal governmentality encompasses. By mobilising Rahel Jaeggi’s understanding of forms of life as ensembles of normatively imbued social practices, I suggest that neoliberal governmentality introduces the rationality of market competition into the problem-solving horizon of social conduct, thereby creating and instituting a “neoliberal form of life”. Hence, I argue that neoliberal governmentality is a form of domination that intervenes in ethical norms and social practices that build everyday forms of life
Biopower · Discipline · Epistemology · Governmentality · Neoliberalism (international relations · Normative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Praxeology · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Reply to the Comments
Re-Presenting the Good Society
From Alienation to Forms of Life
Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique
Critique of Forms of Life
Governmentality, subjectivity, and the neoliberal form of life
Economy as social practice
The Ethical Life of Counter-Communities
Normativity and Normalization
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The Norm, the Normal and the Pathological
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The gentle way in governing
Investing in Children
One step forward, two steps back
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Foucault on Freedom and Truth
From Counter-Conduct to Critical Attitude
The Birth of Biopolitics
In praise of counter-conduct
Capitalism
Norm and Action
Work and Instrumental Action
Foucault and Adorno
Modernity versus Postmodernity
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Undoing the Demos
Publics and Counterpublics
Self as Enterprise
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |