Deconstructing postmodernist Nietzscheanism : : Deleuze and Foucault / / by Jan Rehmann ; translated by Kolja Swingle, Larry Swingle.

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 254
• VerfasserIn: Rehmann, Jan,
• TeilnehmendeR: Swingle, Kolja,; Swingle, Larry,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 254.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (337 pages)
• Notes: Rehmann’s book investigates how Deleuze and Foucault read Nietzsche and apply a hermeneutics of innocence to his philosophy that erases its elitist, anti-democratic, and anti-socialist dimensions. This also affects their own theory and impairs postmodernism’s claim to develop a radical critique.

It is often asserted that postmodernism emerged from 'leftist' Nietzsche-interpretations, but it is rarely explored. This book investigates how Deleuze and Foucault read Nietzsche and apply a hermeneutics of innocence to his philosophy that erases the elitist, anti-democratic, and anti-socialist dimensions. This misreading also affects their own theory and impairs the claim to develop a radical critique. The late Foucault’s turn to self-care techniques merges a neo-Nietzschean approach with the ideologies of neoliberalism. Rehmann’s critique is not directed against the endeavor to take suggestions from some of Nietzsche’s astute intuitions, but rather against the conformism to use him as a symbolic capital without revealing his hierarchical obsession. This book is an updated and extended version of Postmoderner Links-Nietzscheanismus: Deleuze & Foucault. Eine Dekonstruktion , originally published in German by Argument Verlag GmbH, 2004, 978-3-88619-298-4.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Conference on the Foundations of Arab Linguistics (FAL V, Cambridge, 2018). The first part of the book deals with Sībawayhi’s Kitāb , the oldest known treatise of Arabic grammar: after providing insights on some of its specific terminology, these chapters evaluate its place as a source within the long-term tradition of grammatical studies. The second part of the book focuses on parallel developments in the Arabic grammatical theory, both in the classical and postclassical periods up to the 15th century. Some contributions also address the relationship between grammar and other disciplines, notably philosophy and Qurʾānic exegesis. As such, this volume aims to deepen our knowledge of the development of linguistic theories in the Islamicate world.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Part I. Deleuze and the Construction of a Plural-Differential Image of Nietzsche -- 1. Plural Differences Instead of Dialectical Contradictions -- 2. Deleuze's Combination of Hume's Empiricism and Bergson's Vitalism -- 3. Nietzsche as Anti-Dialectician? -- 4. The Birth of the Postmodern 'Difference' out of the 'Pathos of Distance' -- 5. The Debate About the 'Will to Power': Metaphysical or Plural? -- 6. Nietzsche's Combination of Decentring and Hierarchisation -- 7. Flattening out the Late Nietzsche’s Departure from Spinoza -- 8. The Confusion of Spinoza’s Power to Act with Nietzsche’s Power of Domination -- 9. Will to Power as Desire Production -- 10. Primitive Inscriptions and State-Imperial Overcodings -- 11. Faire de la pensée une machine de guerre -- Part II. The Death of Man and the Eternal Recurrence -- 1. Survey of the Terrain: Uncritical Replication, Normative Critique, Leftist Helplessness -- 2. The 'Age of History' and the 'Anthropological Sleep' -- 3. Borrowings from Heidegger's Critique of Humanism -- 4. The Reductionist Construction of an 'Anthropological' Age -- 5. The Overcoming of Marxian Utopia by the Overman -- 6. Excursus: Nietzsche's Reworking of Cultural Protestant Anti-Judaism - the Example of Wellhausen -- 6.1 Wellhausen's Anti-Judaic Construction -- 6.2 Nietzsche's Adoption and Modification of Anti-Judaism -- 6.3 Anti-Semitism, Anti-Anti-Semitism - Revisiting a Stalled Debate -- 7. Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence as Religion -- 8. Postmodern Reading of Nietzsche as Pious Retelling -- Part III. The Introduction of a Neo-Nietzschean Concept of Power and Its Consequences -- 1. New Coordinates -- 2. Survey of the Terrain: The Overcoming of Ideology Critique through the 'Diversity' and the 'Productivity' of Power -- 3. The Dissolution of Ideology into 'Knowledge' -- 4. The Neo-Nietzschean Alternative: 'Everything is Fake' -- 5. Power as Dissimulation Machine -- 6. Nietzsche's 'Genealogy', or: the Violent Construction of an ‘Alternative Nietzsche’ -- 6.1 'Ursprung' versus 'Herkunft' with Nietzsche? -- 6.2. Points of Support for the Foucauldian Interpretation in the 'Middle' Nietzsche -- 6.3. The late Nietzsche's Verticalisation and its Suppression by Foucault -- 7. The Affiliation with Left-Wing Radicalism in Paris -- 8. The Enigmatic Issue of Power and its Anchorage in War -- 9. Outlook: The Suppression of the Structurally Anchored Power Relations -- Part IV. From Prison to the Modern Soul - 'Discipline and Punish' Revisited -- 1. An (All Too) Cursory Meeting with 'Critical Theory' -- 2. The Socio-Historical Approach of Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer -- 3. Advancement or Abandonment of a Social History of the Penitentiary System? -- 3.1. From Function to Aspects of Functioning -- 3.2. A Neo-Nietzschean Framework -- 3.3. The Abstraction from Forced Labour -- 3.4. A Narrowed-Down Genealogy of the Prison -- 3.5. Foucault’s Elimination of Contradictions -- 3.6. The Fixation of Critique on the Social-Pedagogisation of the Penal System -- 3.7. Foucault’s ‘Dispositif’ and the 'Political Economy' of the Body' -- 4. The Panoptical Nucleus of the Disciplinary Society -- 4.1. The Panopticon as Diagram of Modern Hegemony? -- 4.2. The Levelling of Repressive and Consensual Socialisation -- 4.3. The Real-Imaginary of the Panopticon -- 4.4. 'Economy ought to be the prevalent consideration' (Bentham) -- 4.5. Bentham as Visionary of ‘Disciplinary Neoliberalism’ -- 5. Foucault’s Disciplinary Power in a Double-Bind Between 'Microphysics' and Omnipresent 'Phagocytic Essence' (Poulantzas) -- 5.1. The Hidden Contradiction -- 5.2. The Diversity of Power and the Problem of its Accumulation -- 5.3. 'The Limits of Social Disciplining' (Peukert) -- 5.4. The Removal of the ‘Topography’ from the Theory of Society (Althusser) -- 6. Foucault’s Metaphorisation of the Prison and the Reality of Neoliberal Hyperincarceration -- Part V. Forays into the Late Foucault -- 1. Biopolitics -- A New Power Enters the Stage -- 2. Foucault’s Distinction Between Techniques of Domination and Techniques of the Self -- 3. The Mysterious Concept of ‘Governmentality’ 4. A Sharp Turn Against Socialism -- 5. Marx as Stalinism’s ‘Truth’ -- 6. Foucault’s Affiliation with Neoliberalism -- 6.1. Survey of the Terrain: Ambiguities and Opposite Interpretations -- 6.2. Foucault’s Contribution to a Critical Analysis of Neoliberalism -- 6.3. Fascinated by Neoliberalism’s ‘Post-Disciplinary’ Governmentality -- 6.4. The Assault on the Fordist Welfare State -- 6.5. Foucault’s Self-Techniques as Part of a Neoliberal Transvaluation -- Appendix: Governmentality Studies, or the Reproduction of Neoliberal Ideology -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.