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-soc...

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.