Amy Allen, The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2007. This has just been newly published in paperback. Publisher’s page Draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Seyla Benhabib, and others The book is both an analysis of power and an …
Nancy Luxon, Crisis of Authority. Politics, Trust, and Truth-Telling in Freud and Foucault, Cambridge University Press, 2013 isbn: 9781107038738 Publisher’s page Description Contemporary social and political theory has reached an impasse about a problem that had once seemed straightforward: how can individuals make ethical judgments about power and politics? Crisis of Authority analyzes the practices …
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Having put together rough drafts of chapters 1 and 2 (see previous update), I was now able to move to the real focus of the book. But there is no simple break, and even as I go onto these chapters there was some material from previous courses that was best discussed…
Diogo Sardinha, L’Emancipation de Kant à Deleuze, Hermann éditeurs des sciences et des arts, Collection / Série : Hermann Philosophie, 2013 248 pages ; 21,00 x 14,00 cm ISBN 978-2-7056-8757-1 Sommaire Plus que jamais, sans doute, nous avons besoin de stratégies critiques pour l’émancipation. Or, lisant la philosophie des deux derniers siècles, on découvre les …
Sophie Fuggle, Foucault/Paul: Subjects of Power, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 Publisher’s page Description What is power? Where does it come from and who is in possession of it? How should we think about power and authority in a post-secular society in which traditional boundaries between individual and collective faith and secular governments and institutions are becoming …
Barry Smart, Foucault, Marxism and Critique, Routledge – 1983 Reissued 2013 In this work, originally released in 1983, Barry Smart examines the relevance of Foucault’s work for developing an understanding of those issues which lie beyond the limits of Marxist theory and analysis – issues such as ‘individualising’ forms of power, power-knowledge relations, the rise …
Mitchell Dean, The Signature of Power: Sovereignty, Governmentality and Biopolitics, SAGE, September 2013 Publisher’s page Description Mitchell Dean revitalized the study of ‘governmentality’ with his bestselling book of the same title. His new book on power is a landmark work. It combines an extraordinary breadth of perspective with pinpoint accuracy about what power means for …
Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Narrated by Simon Prebble Tantor Audio Books Publication Date: 09/23/2013 Running Time: 13 hrs 8 min Editorial comment: This ebook seems to be subject to stringent copyright zone restrictions (available in the US, but not in some other countries). A customer comment on Amazon indicated …
Michel Foucault. Les Grecs disaient que les paroles avaient des ailes, Manuella Editions, 2013 Présenté sous forme de leporello de huit volets, cet hommage à Michel Foucault est édité à l’initiative du Centre Michel Foucault. Il est composé d’un texte extrait de l’émission “Le corps et ses doubles” du 28 janvier 1963, de la série …
John Rajchman, Truth and Eros: Foucault, Lacan and the question of ethics. Routledge – 1991 – Reissued 2013. Series: Routledge Library Editions: Michel Foucault In this reissused work, first published in 1991, John Rajchman isolates the question of ethics in the work of Foucault and Lacan and explores its ramifications and implications for the present …
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