Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self. Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, University of Chicago Press, 2015. Translated by Graham Burchell Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini Introduction and critical apparatus by Laura Cremonesi, Arnold I. Davidson, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli 160 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 …
Lee Quinby, Anti-Apocalypse. Exercises in Genealogical Criticism, University of Minnesota Press, 1994 As the year 2000 looms, heralding a new millennium, apocalyptic thought abounds-and not merely among religious radicals. In politics, science, philosophy, popular culture, and feminist discourse, apprehensions of the End appear in images of cultural decline and urban chaos, forecasts of the end …
Vinod Kumar Rawat, Knowledge-Power/Resistance: Beyond Bacon, Ambedkar and Foucault, Partridge India Publication, 2014 Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Educational institutes, that is, “knowledge factories,” apart from producing self-governing citizens, and skilled docile workers, function as minute social observatories that indirectly monitor their families. Michel Foucault delineates power in terms of Pastoral (church and salvation), Sovereign (visible …
Arpad Szakolczai, Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works, Routledge, 1998 About the Book Max Weber and Michael Foucault are among the most controversial and fascinating thinkers of our century. This book is the first to jointly analyse them in detail, and to make effective links between their lives and work; it coincides with a …
Christopher Mayes, The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices, Routledge, 2016. Forthcoming About the Book A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations. This work focuses on the biopolitical use …
Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar (Eds), Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, University of Chicago Press, 2015 Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a …
Colin Koopman, Pragmatism as Transition. Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty, Columbia University Press, 2015 Pragmatism is America’s best-known native philosophy. It espouses a practical set of beliefs and principles that focus on the improvement of our lives. Yet the split between classical and contemporary pragmatists has divided the tradition against itself. Classical …
Michel Foucault, Against Himself: Arlette Farge Remembers Foucault on the Streets of Paris, Literary Hub, 16 Nov 2015 The following conversation with French historian Arlette Farge is excerpted from Michel Foucault, Against Himself, a collection of interviews and essays exploring the contradictions and conflicts at the heart of Michel Foucault’s life and work. You met Foucault after …
Daniele Lorenzini, Éthique et politique de soi. Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les techniques de l’ordinaire. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2015 Introduction et Table des matières Quel(s) rapport(s) est-il possible de tracer entre l’éthique et la politique? Michel Foucault, Pierre Hadot et Stanley Cavell, à partir de trois positions philosophiques très différentes, ont élaboré des …
Christian LAVAL, Luca PALTRINIERI, Ferhat TAYLAN, Marx & Foucault: Lectures, usages, confrontations, Éditions La Découverte, 2015 Marx et Foucault : deux œuvres, deux pensées sans lesquelles on ne peut saisir le sens de notre présent. Pas de théorie critique qui puisse se passer de leurs concepts et de leurs analyses. Et pas de luttes qui …
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