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 …
Lauri Siisiäinen, Foucault & the Politics of Hearing. Routledge, July 2012 Publisher’s page Description The issue of the senses and sensual perception in Michel Foucault’s thought has been a source of prolific discussion already for quite some time. Often, Foucault has been accused of overemphasizing the centrality of sight, and has been portrayed as yet …
Juan J. Jiménez-Anca, Beyond power: Unbridging Foucault and Weber, European Journal of Social Theory June 6, 2012 https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431012444919 Abstract Today, very few would doubt that there are plenty of reasons to liken Weber’s and Foucault’s theories of power. Nevertheless, their respective works have divergent ethical and ontological preoccupations which should be reconsidered. This article explores …
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