Foucault, Politics, and Violence

Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments This book turned out to be a lot more difficult an endeavor than I imagined . The support and help I received was invaluable. Acknowledgments are due to the three institutions I was affiliated with while working on it: the New School for Social Research, the University of Dundee, and most recently, the University of Helsinki. I would like to thank my colleagues and students in the respective philosophy departments of these schools. I have also been a member of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change. I am grateful to the members of the research team Politics of Philosophy and Gender for the many occasions to discuss my work. In particular I would like to thank Jay Bernstein, Simon Critchley, James Dodd, Rainer Forst, Simon Glendinning, Jane Goldman, Margret Grebowicz, Rachel Jones, Tuomas Nevanlinna, Denise Riley, Pilvi Toppinen , and Laura Werner. They have either read and commented on parts of the typescript, or discussed it with me in detail. Paul Mendelson, Joan Nordlund, and Julia Honkasalo have provided me with excellent editorial assistance. I also want to use this opportunity to thank the two anonymous readers for their exceptionally detailed and perceptive comments. Whoever you are, I really appreciate the time you took to engage with my project. The revised version of the typescript has benefited enormously from your reports. The Academy of Finland funded an eighteen-month period of the project, and a three-month sabbatical granted by the University of Dundee was crucial for its completion. Parts of this work draw on previously published articles: J. Oksala, “The Management of State Violence: Foucault’s Rethinking of Political Power as Governmentality,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 28, no. 2 (2007): 53–66; J. Oksala, “Foucault’s Politicization of Ontology,”Continental Philosophy Review 43, no. 4 (2010): 445–66; J. Oksala, “Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity,” Foucault Studies, no. 10 (2010): 23–43; J. Oksala, “Lines of Fragility: A Foucauldian Critique of Violence,” in Philosophy and the Return of Violence: Studies from This Widening Gyre, ed. Christopher Yates and Nathan Eckstrand viii A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S (London: Continuum, 2011); J. Oksala, “Violence and Neoliberal Governmentality ,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 18, no. 3 (September 2011), 474–86. ...