Steven Maynard, ‘Foucault: His Thought, His Character (review)’, Labour / Le Travail, 69, Spring 2012, pp. 255-257 Further details Full PDF In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reading Veyne, now age 82 and Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, is a bit like listening to an elder …
Dean, Mitchell, Governmentality Meets Theology: ‘The King Reigns, but He Does Not Govern’, Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 29, Issue 3, May 2012, Pages 145-158 Review of The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government by Giorgio Agamben, trans. Lorenzo Chiesa (with Matteo Mandarini) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011 …
Jacques Rancière The Intellectual and His People. Staging the People Volume 2 Verso, 2012 Review by Steven Poole, ‘Non-fiction reviews roundup’, The Guardian, 29 June 2012 The agitator for a “people’s theatre” seeks “to moralise the people through the spread of art”; the sociologist claims to be the only one able to see what is, …
Foucault, une politique de la vérité, Cahiers Philosophiques, n°130/3ème trimestre 2012 Le Courage de la vérité est le dernier cours prononcé par Foucault au Collège de France durant l’année 1984. Celui-ci ne détermine pas le sens ultime de l’œuvre du philosophe pas plus qu’il ne déploie une totalisation unifiée de son parcours théorique. La parrêsia – le …
“I would say that Anti-Oedipus (may its authors forgive me) is a book of ethics, the first book of ethics to be written in France in quite a long time. … The Christian moralists sought out traces of the flesh lodged deep in the soul. Deleuze and Guattari, for their part, pursue the slightest traces …
Domingo Fernández Agis & Ángela Sierra González (eds.), La Biopolítica en el mundo actual. Reflexiones sobre el Efecto Foucault, Barcelona: Laertes, 2012, 204 p. (ISBN: 978-84-7584-874-7) En su origen, la aplicación del concepto de biopolítica como directriz pragmática está vinculada a una interpretación organicista del Estado, que considera a este un todo orgánico susceptible de …
Matthew Ball, Becoming a ‘Bastion Against Tyranny’: Australian Legal Education and the Government of the Self, Law and Critique 23 (2):103-122 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-012-9101-1 Abstract Research into legal education suggests that many students enter law school with ideals about using the law to achieve social change, but graduate with some cynicism regarding these ideals. It is …
Michael Sheringham, Michel Foucault, Pierre Rivière and the Archival Imaginary’, Comparative Critical Studies 8.2–3 (2011): 235–257. https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2011.0021 Introduction Apart from his inaugural lecture, the first published fruits of Michel Foucault’s election to the Collège de France in 1970 derived from a seminar on the interaction of medical discourses and penal reform, which centred on the …
Zhao, Guoping (2012). “The self and human freedom in Foucault and Zhuangzi” . Journal of Chinese philosophy , 39 (1), p. 139-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2012.01706.x Abstract Foucault and Zhuangzi share important insights on the role of knowledge practices play in the pursuit of human freedom. This article investigates Foucault’s discussion of the subjectivation truth games of the …
Jablonska, Barbara (2012). “Władza i wiedza w krytycznych studiach nad dyskursem – szkic teoretyczny”. Studia socjologiczne , (1), p. 75-92. https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/427714 Abstract The article deals with the problem of power and knowledge in contemporary discourse studies. The presented reflections are based on theoretical assumptions of the work by two French authors: Michel Foucault and Pierre …
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