Foucault on Liberal Democracy, Historicism and Philosophy Blake Smith. Tocqueville 21, 9 May 2020 Liberal democracy is an oxymoron. Or rather, it’s a site of confrontation between contradictory discourses, between the universalist aspirations of philosophy and the partisanship of historiography. So insinuates Michel Foucault in the lecture series “Society Must be Defended,” delivered at the Collège de …
Gordon Hull, On the Authorship of Law: Copyright, Foucault, and Hobbes, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 12 Nivember 2019 There is an interesting copyright case before the Supreme Court this term, Georgia v. Public Resource.org. It is settled law that official edicts of the government – statutory texts, judicial opinions, agency rules – are not copyrightable. More …
Colleen Kelsey, Accidental Style Icon: Michel Foucault, Garage magazine on the Vice site, Sep 15 2019 Editor: Update 11 February 2026. The link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine. The French philosopher, who literally recommended care for the Self, is proof that so-called “public intellectuals” tend to have the best style. …
The Funambulist Pamphlets: Volume 02_Foucault By Léopold Lambert CTM Documents Initiative (an imprint of punctum books + Center for Transformative Media, Parsons The New School for Design) Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, 2013. 102 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0615832999. OPEN-ACCESS e-book and paperbound/4.25 X 6.88 in. Publisher’s page You can buy the book in hard copy from this …
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