Goldhill, S. Beyond Michel Foucault, Beyond Peter Brown: What Did Early Christianity Destroy? (2024) Arethusa, 57 (2), pp. 193-225. DOI: 10.1353/are.2024.a934133 Abstract This article argues that the focus on sexuality and the body in early Christianity, prompted by the seminal work of Peter Brown and Michel Foucault, has obscured a truly major and profound shift …
Leonard D’Cruz, The Normative Stakes of Foucault’s Engagement with Neoliberalism: Seduction, Invention, and Normalization, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12589 Open access Abstract: This article critically examines Foucault’s engagement with neoliberalism. While Foucault declares that his analysis of this tradition is primarily descriptive, I argue that he continually questions whether neoliberalism is less …
Boucheron, Patrick. Of What Is History Capable?. Translated by Liz Libbrecht, Collège de France, Open edition books, 2018 https://doi.org/10.4000/books.cdf.5852 Open access Extracts We need history because we need rest: a pause to rest our consciousness, so that the possibility of a consciousness may remain – as the seat not only of thought, but of practical …
Elmore, M. Mysticism as Counter-Conduct: A Foucauldian Retrieval of Dante and St. Catherine of Siena (2024) Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 44 (1), pp. 137-154. DOI: 10.5840/jsce2024319100 Abstract This essay draws upon Dante and St. Catherine of Siena to flesh out the Foucauldian concept of counter-conduct. Dante and Catherine occupy an important place …
Lars Erik Løvaas Gjerde, Antiracist welfarism: A governmentality study of Norwegian state antiracism, Nordic Journal of Social Research, 24 September 2024, pp 1–14 https://doi.org/10.18261/njsr.15.1.5 Open access Abstract This article analyses Norwegian state antiracism and how this relates to welfarism, the political rationality of the welfare state. Using a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the author studies governmental …
Ege Selin Islekel, Nightmare Remains. The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance, Northwestern University Press, 2024 Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues that a political technology of mourning is fundamental to contemporary politics. This technology of necrosovereignty shapes …
Jonas Oßwald, Deleuze und Foucault. Ein Dialog, Campus, 2024 Über das Buch Gilles Deleuze und Michel Foucault verband eine »philosophische Freundschaft«, so der Tenor. Doch trotz zahlreicher gegenseitiger Bezugnahmen, lobender Rezensionen und füreinander verfasster Vorworte gibt es bisher kaum Arbeiten, die sich mit dem philosophischen Gehalt dieser Beziehung befassen. Jonas Oßwald zeigt erstmals die grundlegende …
Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic & María José Martínez Sánchez, Placeness and the Performative Production of Space, Bloomsbury, 2024 (forthcoming) Description How can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this study of the relationship of performance …
Gürsoy, Ö. Historical A Priori as Form of Life: The Rationality of Social Practices in Foucault’s Archaeology in terms of Wittgensteinian Criteria (2024) Journal of the Philosophy of History DOI: 10.1163/18722636-12341532 Abstract The concept of rule permeates Foucault’s methodological formulations concerning the object of his investigation, but he offers few explicit discussions of the epistemological …
Malcolm Voyce, Foucault and Family Relations. Governing from a Distance in Australia, Lexington Books, 2019 Foucault and Family Relations: Governing from a Distance in Australia analyzes how notions of property ownership were instrumental in maintaining family stability and continuity in rural Australia, outlining how inheritance and divorce laws functioned to govern the internal relationships of …
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