Politics Under Erasure: A post-Foucauldian Reconsideration of Neoliberalism in Higher Education

In this article, I offer a post-Foucauldian interpretation of current neoliberal practices in higher education. In doing so, I argue that Foucault can take us only so far in making sense of these practices, as higher education's current neoliberal ethos takes on new totalizing, disempowering forms that require updating, revising, and challenging Foucault's prescient analyses. As educational philosophical critiques of neoliberalism have been largely based on Foucault's illuminating exposure of liberalism's transformation into neoliberalism, I will suggest how this philosophical critical literature merits further consideration.