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Contents

Preface

Introduction: Let Foucault Talk about Foucault

A Historical Beginning: Figures of the Teachers

Context Determinant in the Genealogy of Foucault’s Thoughts

Conguilhem and the History of Science in France

“I Am Really Not A Structuralist.”

The Fundamental Influence of Heidegger and Nietzsche

Without Quotation Marks: A Hidden Relation between Foucault and Marx

The Hollow Space: Breton and Surrealism

Sade, Bataille, and Blanchot in the Metaphors of Avant‑guard Literature

The Silence in the Darkness of History

Face the Plebs: “Lives of Infamous Men” in the Dark Legend

From Weber to Frankfurt School: Legitimacy of Science’s Reasonable Reign

The Objectified Practice of Knowledge Discourse

The Heterogeneous Gaze of Power Study

Truth is A Bad Thing

Power and Subject

Late Summary

How Foucault Sees Others Reading His Book

Part I Words' Historical Inscription of Things in the Cultural Configuration of Episteme: The Historical Ordering Discourse of Young Foucault's The Order of Things

Chapter One. Violent Ordering: Ontological Naming of the Object

1. Question after the Legitimacy of the Existential Ordering of Things

2. Episteme: Silent Configuration behind Reflection of Cultural Knowledge

3. Man Is a Late Incident

Chapter Two. From Resemblance to Representation: Towards A Capitalized Ordering

1. Las Meninas between the Visible and Invisible: Who Was Wrong, Foucault or Picasso£¿

2. Resembling Sketching: Picture of the World in the 16th Century Episteme

3. Kingdom of Representation Situating: Historical Emergence of the Classical Episteme

4. Modern Episteme: Reconstruction of the Order

Chapter Three. Classical Episteme: There Kinds of Orders in Discourse, Nature and Wealth

1. The Universal Grammar as the Order of Discourse Activity

2. Law Enforced on Nature: Natural History in the Order of Taxonomy

3. Circulation and Exchange: Order of Value in the Field of Wealth

4. The General Table of Three Kinds of Representation Orders

Chapter Four. Modern Episteme: The Emergence of History

1. Sade’s Profligacy: The Re‑reversal the Representation World

2. Ideology: a New Grammar and Logic

3. Labor and Production: From Smith to Ricardo

4. The Organizing Organism and the Mechanism of Inflection

Chapter Five. Man of Subjectivity: A Historically Constructed Event of A History Less than 200 Years

1. The Human Subject Constructed in Hollow

2. Four Provisions of the Modern Man of Subjectivity

3. Are Human Sciences Always There?

Attachment I: Archaeology of Science: Young Foucault’s Words on Episteme and the Epistemological Break

1. Discontinuity: Q&A

2. Staging of the Filed of Discursive Event

3. Archives and the Archaeology of knowledge

Attachment II: The Absent Author in the Mode of Discourse: Interpreting Young Foucault’s “What is Author?”

1. In What Sense Is the Author Absent?

2. Decenteredness of Author and His Name

3. The Author Disconstructed in the Functional Existence and the Mode and Discourse Practice

4. An Interesting Debate: Did Structure Go to Street?

Part II Genealogy in the Transformations of Discourse Formation Fields: Methodological Discourse in Young Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge

Chapter Six. Discontinuity: A New Historical View to Reject Totality and Teleology

1. Discontinuity: Questioning Historiography

2. A New Methodology Emerging from the Break of Traditional View of History of Totality

3. The Pseudo Totality to Save History: Reconstructed Marx and Nietzsche

Chapter Seven. Formation: Transformation From Episteme to Field of Discursive Event

1. Field of Discourse: Ongoing Discourse Constructive Activity

2. Field of Discursive Event: Formation of Social Subject‑Object

3. Politically Strategic Formation as Discursive Practice

4. Statement as Discursive Atom

Attachment III. From Ordering to Dis‑Ordering: Deconstruction of Violent Structure in Discourse: Interpreting Foucault’s “The Order of Discourse”

1. The Will to Truth as Exclusion: The Invisible Hand Behind the Invisible Discourse

2. Intrinsic Program of Discursive Control

3. Discursive Right: Who Has the Authority to Say?

4. Dis‑ordering: Is There a Rebel in Discourse?

Chapter Eight. Archaeology of Knowledge: Ossified Discursive Archives and Disruptive Genealogical Discoveries

1. Discursive Archives as Historical A Priori

2. What’s Foucault’s Archaeology?

3. Genealogy: Marginal Rebel in the Totality Knowledge of History

4. Heterotopia: Other Spaces in Looking Awry

Attachment IV: A Genealogical Study: Emergence of Historical Event in the Break of the Chain of the History of Totality – Interpreting Foucault's "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”

1. Refuse Origin: Looking for the Special Other in the Darkness of Historical Study

2. Genealogical Study: Deconstruction of the Nobel Origin and Existentialism of Emergence

3. Genealogical Study as a Real History

Part III Self‑enslaving Society of Discipline: Philosophical Discourse of Power in Foucault's Discipline and Punishment

Chapter Nine Political Corporal Control: The Soul as the Effectivity of Knowledge‑Power

1. From the Public Performance of Six Horses Pulling Body to the Invisible Punishment

2. Knowledge and Docility of Body: Microphysics of Power

3. Knowledge is Power: Glory Knowledge Carries the Invisible Power

Chapter Ten Obey Disciplines: The Secret of the Construction of Capitalist Self‑enslaving Disciplinary Society

1. Anonymous Art of Punishment and Automatic Docility Machine

2. Discipline: Self‑Constructive Engendering of Corporal Control

3. Little Things and the Control of Details: Micro‑cybernetics of Discipline

Chapter Eleven The Police‑Discipline Society of Panopticism

1. Disciplinary Power: Invisible Strategy of Automatic Docility

2. Automatic Power Machine: the Panopticon

3. Panopticon and Disciplinary Society

Attachment V. Critique and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: From Not Being Controlled to Helping to Slave: Interpreting Foucault’s “What is Critique?” and “What is Enlightenment?”

1. Critique: The Art That is not Governed

2. Companion of Thought: Frankfurt School and Their Critique of Enlightenment

3. The Pain of Enlightenment: Power Governance under the Misusage of Knowledge

Part IV Life in Apparatus: Transition From External Enforcement to Micro‑power Expanded in Body: Bio‑political Discourse in Foucault's "College of France Lectures"

Chapter Twelve The New Power Apparatus in Capitalist Civil Society

1. Disciplinary‑Normative Apparatus: The Blade of Truth to Divide the “Normal” and the “Abnormal”

2. The “How” as a Power of Apparatus

3. The Power Machine of Civil Society “Without the Ruler”

4. Genealogy of Knowledge: Recognize the Dried Blood Stain in Capitalist Code

Chapter Thirteen Bio‑politics and Modern Power Governance

1. “How” to live: Power Technics for the Bio‑right

2. Quasi‑natural Population: the Object of Bio‑power Governance

3. Nature‑Freedom in Capitalist Economic Process: the Real Foundation of Security Governance

4. Second Naturality: Security Governance based on Population

5. Governance on the Population

Chapter Fourteen From Pastoral to Police: Micro‑governance Mechanism of Modern Bourgeois Political Power

1. Pastoral: the Submission that Leads People Forward in their Hearts

2. Police: the Hidden Regulation in “Live Better”

3. The Secret Relation of Police and Market Logic

Chapter Fifteen Illusion of Liberalism: Market and the Governance Technics of Civil Society

1. Back to Marx: Political Economy as a Reflected Image of Social Governance Practice

2. Market: From the Regulated Justice to the Self‑illuminative Utility

3. Liberalism: Nature of Governance Technic of Capitalist Society

4. Homo Economicus and Civil Society: An Ally of Liberalist Governance Technics

Bibliography

Appendix I. Term Frequency Statistics of Foucault’s Major Works

Appendix II. Foucault’s Biography and Major Works

Afterword