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Marey, M.
A Political Defence of Kant’s Aufklärung: An Essay
(2017) Critical Horizons, 18 (2), pp. 168-185.

DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2017.1293894

Abstract
The aim of this essay is to analyse the potential for political emancipation that lies within Kant’s conception of Aufklärung, in critical dialogue with enlightenment critics and specialised Kantian literature. My thesis is that Kant’s concept of enlightenment is intrinsically political and so it must be studied from the point of view of his political philosophy, which was fully developed in the decade of the 1790s. From this standpoint, I propose we study the role and place of Aufklärung within Kant’s central political thesis, to wit: that only the united will of the people can be a legitimate authority. © 2017, © Critical Horizons Pty Ltd 2017.

Author Keywords
Adorno and Horkheimer; enlightenment; Foucault; Kant; popular sovereignty

Carou, A. (2017). Avant la philosophie médiatique : quand Foucault et Ricœur rencontraient la télévision. Revue de la BNF, 54,(1), 76-79. https://www.cairn.info/revue-de-la-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france-2017-1-page-76.htm.

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Assis côte à côte sur la banquette arrière d’une voiture qui traverse Paris, Georges Canguilhem et Jean Hyppolite discutent du statut de vérité de la philosophie. Arrivés à destination, les deux vieux maîtres poursuivent leur échange dans l’escalier. Ils gagnent une petite bibliothèque où se trouvent déjà leurs cadets Paul Ricœur et Michel Foucault. Accoudés à une table haute, ceux-ci ont entamé la…

Kelly, M.G.E.
Foucault Contra Honneth: Resistance or Recognition?
(2017) Critical Horizons, 18 (3), pp. 214-230.

DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2017.1293895

Abstract
This article deals with the relationship between the thought of Michel Foucault and that of Axel Honneth, arguing in favour of the former against the latter. I begin by considering Honneth’s early engagement in The Critique of Power with Foucault’s thought. I rebut Honneth’s criticisms of Foucault here as a misreading, one which prevents Honneth from coming to grips with Foucault’s position and hence the challenge that it poses to Honneth’s project. I then move on to offer a Foucauldian critique of Honneth’s own position, arguing for a Foucauldian alternative to Critical Theory. © 2017, © Critical Horizons Pty Ltd 2017.

Author Keywords
Foucault; Honneth; normativity; power; recognition

Artières, P. (2017). Michel Foucault « bien entendu ». Critique, 843-844,(8), 690-699. https://www.cairn.info/revue-critique-2017-8-page-690.htm.

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Dans l’un de ses derniers articles publiés, intitulé initialement « Des espaces autres », Michel Foucault rêvait d’une science nouvelle qu’il nomme l’hétérotopologie ; il s’agissait d’étudier les contre-espaces de nos sociétés, « ses utopies situées, ses lieux réels hors de tous les lieux ». Or, si l’on devait aujourd’hui, en historien des sciences sociales, faire l’histoire de cette science rêvée…

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Gannon, S.
“After the Humidity and Stillness of Yesterday..”: Drifting, Reading, Writing Self and Others, Traveling in Otherwhens and Otherwheres
(2017) Qualitative Inquiry, 23 (4), pp. 252-256.

DOI: 10.1177/1077800416686374

Abstract
This article turns to a handwritten travel journal from more than two decades ago to explore how the past might be animated in the present through provoking affective, material and imaginative encounters with the text, the subject, and the world. This experimental animation of space-time through writing draws upon the figure of the mirror in Foucault’s “heterotopias” as it sets in motion lines of force and displacement that enable openings toward emerging intercorporeal subjects in writing. © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.

Author Keywords
feminist methodologies; heterotopia; methodologies; methods of inquiry; new feminisms; writing as method of inquiry

Ourahmoune, N.
Embodied transformations and food restrictions: The case of medicalized obesity
(2017) Journal of Business Research, 75, pp. 192-201.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.07.018

Abstract
Weight loss surgery that mechanically restricts consumers’ bodies to limit their food intake is booming in a context of globesity (World Health Organization). Based on a Foucauldian analysis, this study contends that self-transformative experiences arise from normalizing practices that the advocates of a repressive medical bio power overlook. This article problematizes the idea of resistance and normativity by emphasizing the existence of various forms of agency, not all of which are predicated on the term of resistance. The author proposes ‘embodied transformation’ as escaping docile embodiment versus embodied resistance (the negative view of subjectification as subjecting) to tell of normalizing practices that become a locus of discovery of creative potentialities within restrictive contexts. The study detects two types of agency. Consumers’ discourses are driven by a temporal or narrative structure vs. a spatial or connective form of becoming. © 2016 Elsevier Inc.

Author Keywords
Agency; Deleuze; Embodied resistance; Food restriction; Foucault; Obesity

Chauviré, C. (2017). Foucault et Wittgenstein en parallèle. Critique, 845,(10), 848-863. https://www.cairn.info/revue-critique-2017-10-page-848.htm.

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Vouloir comparer Foucault et Wittgenstein « par-delà les clivages institués » est une louable entreprise, qui semble plus facile ailleurs qu’en France : aux États-Unis, Ian Hacking et Arnold Davidson avaient déjà préparé un tel rapprochement, que ces deux ouvrages collectifs français viennent confirmer. À première vue, tout semble opposer ces deux icônes avant-gardistes de la philosophie du xxe siècle….