Foucault with Marx

Huge range of interest - trade (general politicised reader, activists, artists as well as a huge potential for an academic audience, humanities, social sciences and arts, especially library pick-up).

Jacques Bidet is a French philosopher and social theorist, currently professor emeritus in the philosophy department at the Université de Paris X - Nanterre. His most recently translated books are Exploring Marx's Capital: Philosophical, Economic and Political Dimensions (2007) and A Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism (2007). He wrote the Introduction to Louis Althusser's On The Reproduction of Capitalism (2014).

Introduction: Why Unite Marx and Foucault, and How? 1. The Marx/Foucault Difference: Discipline and Governmentality 2. Property-Power and Knowledge-Power 3. Marxian Structuralism and Foucauldian Nominalism 4. Marx's 'Capitalism' and Foucault's 'Liberalism' Elements of a Conclusion: A Strategy from Below

Competent and lucid . hold[s] out hope of reconnecting what used to be called the "new social movements" with struggles against capitalism.'
Represents yet another contribution to the eventual overcoming of an academic skirmish between advocates of Foucault and Marx, itself a smaller conflict in the larger battle of postmodernism versus Marxism.
Highly accomplished...a superb theoretical synthesis.
In the growing literature confronting and combining the legacies of Marx and Foucault, Jacques Bidet's contribution will stand out with exceptional relevance. It is both firmly anchored in the author's doctrine of the "dual" nature of capitalist domination (capital as property and capital as knowledge) and full of imaginative readings of the texts.
The ongoing confrontation between Marx and Foucault is a primary theoretical issue implicit in every political struggle today, whether domestic or international. Bidet's careful and detailed staging of the intersections of these two quite different bodies of theory is an indispensable exercise.
In this important work, Jacques Bidet shows with patient and piercing insight why it is necessary to link Foucault with Marx (and Marx with Foucault) in order to make sense of the contemporary world. It will undoubtedly become an essential work for anyone seeking to think through the productive relations between the two thinkers.
Bidet creatively interrogates Marx's critique of property and class relations and Foucault's critique of knowledge-power relations to produce an original synthesis that informs a novel approach to resistance and struggles for counter-hegemony in the present neoliberal conjuncture.