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News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 9 including a “state of the disciplines“ review on Foucault and postcolonial studies.

Included
* 5 original articles about money, heterotopias, alimentary identities, animal ethics and the emotional content of governmentality processes
* a review essay of Ladelle McWorter’s Racisism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America
* a discussion of Foucault’s Kantian Lineage

* 10 new book reviews

Foucault Studies is an electronic, open access, peer reviewed, international journal that provides a forum for scholarship engaging the intellectual legacy of Michel Foucault, interpreted in the broadest possible terms. We welcome submissions ranging from theoretical explications of Foucault’s work and texts to interdisciplinary engagements across various fields, to empirical studies of contemporary phenomena using Foucaultian.

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Number 9, September 2010:
Table of Contents:

Editorial
Sverre Raffnsøe, Alan Rosenberg, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Jens Erik Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Chloë Taylor; with Ditte Holm
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Articles

At the Intersection of Sovereignty and Biopolitics: The Di-Polaric Spatializations of Money
Tero Auvinen

The Emotional Life of Governmental Power
Elaine Campbell

Foucault, Borges, Heterotopia: Producing Knowledge in Other Spaces
Robert J. Topinka

Foucault and the Ethics of Eating
Chloë Taylor

Apparatuses of Animality
Stephen Thierman
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State of the Disciplines

Postcolonial Discourse and Foucault: Survey of a Field of Problematization
Robert Nichols
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Exchange

Transcendental Philosophy and Critical Philosophy in Kant and Foucault: Response to Colin Koopman
Colin McQuillan

Appropriation and Permission in the History of Philosophy: Response to McQuillan
Colin Koopman
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Review Essay

Ladelle McWhorter, Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy (Indiana: Indiana U. Press, 2009)
Chloë Taylor, Robert Nichols

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Reviews

Paul Veyne, Foucault: sa pensée, sa personne (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 2008)
Alan Milchman

Ed Cohen, A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body (North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2009)
Elliot A. Jarbe

Vanessa Lemm, Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009)
Mike McConnell

Joseph Tanke, Foucault’s Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity (New York: Continuum, 2009)
Dag Petersson

Carlos G. Prado (ed.), Foucault’s Legacy (New York/London: Continuum, 2009)
Darryl De Marzio

Lynne Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009)
Christopher Roman

David Gelernter, Judaism: A Way of Being (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2009)
David Kaden

John Sellars, The Art of Living: the Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2009)
Antonio Donato

Daniel O’Hara, The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: on Nietzsche’s Truth (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2009)
Charles Villet

Mari Ruti, Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (New York: The Other Press, 2006)
Marcus Schulzke

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