The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance in the formation of the “new historicism” and “cultural materialism” which ...currently dominate international literary studies. Foucault’s accounts of power, sexuality and discourse have had a profound influence, and will remain central to future debates and developments.
Foucault and Literature provides a detailed introduction to the whole body of Foucault’s work, and assesses its impact on Anglo-American literary studies. Simon During offers a critique both of Foucault and of the literary studies that have been influenced by him. As such, his book will be of interest to all those involved in the study and teaching of literary criticism and theory, as well as those who have a particular interest in the work of Michel Foucault.
Simon During is Senior Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Melbourne, Australia.
First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is ..."governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political power and its contestation? This new introduction offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students both a highly accessible guide and an original contribution to debates about power and governmentality.
The book aims to serve four main functions:
To situate governmentality as an intellectual development within Foucault's thinking about the microphysics of power and his genealogical methods;
To reveal how research in governmentality has changed as the idea encounters new academic fields, political contexts and regional settings;
To examine one of the more recent encounters between governmentality and the social sciences - its interaction with international relations and global politics;
To offer researchers some methodological suggestions for undertaking studies in governmentality, stressing that its critical edge becomes blunted if it is detached from historical/genealogical modes of inquiry.
This book offers a set of conceptual and methodological observations intended to keep research in governmentality a living, critical thought project. Above all, it argues that the challenge of understanding the world calls for the addition of new thinking equipment to the governmentality toolbox. Governmentality: Critical Encounters will prove useful for students of social and political theory, international relations, political sociology, anthropology and geography.
Space, Knowledge and Power Elden, Stuart; Crampton, Jeremy W
2007, 20160401, 2007-11-01, 2016-04-01, 2016-03-31, 2012-11-28
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Michel Foucault's work is rich with implications and insights concerning spatiality, and has inspired many geographers and social scientists to develop these ideas in their own research. This book, ...the first to engage Foucault's geographies in detail from a wide range of perspectives, is framed around his discussions with the French geography journal Hérodote in the mid 1970s. The opening third of the book comprises some of Foucault's previously untranslated work on questions of space, a range of responses from French and English language commentators, and a newly translated essay by Claude Raffestin, a leading Swiss geographer. The rest of the book presents specially commissioned essays which examine the remarkable reception of Foucault's work in English and French language geography; situate Foucault's project historically; and provide a series of developments of his work in the contemporary contexts of power, biopolitics, governmentality and war. Contributors include a number of key figures in social/spatial theory such as David Harvey, Chris Philo, Sara Mills, Nigel Thrift, John Agnew, Thomas Flynn and Matthew Hannah. Written in an open and engaging tone, the contributors discuss just what they find valuable - and frustrating - about Foucault's geographies. This is a book which will both surprise and challenge.
This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault’s political and philosophical thought across his career. It argues, in the areas of epistemology, power, subjectivity, resistance, ...politics, and ethics, that Foucault’s work represents the articulation of a consistent and progressive philosophical and political viewpoint. The work is thus an important intervention into the field of Foucault studies, where many continue to claim that Foucault’s work is contradictory, nonsensical, or nihilistic.
Introduction 1. Epistemology 2. Power I 3. Power II 4. Subjectivity 5. Resistance 6. Critique 7. Ethics
Mark G.E. Kelly is Lecturer in Philosophy at Middlesex University.
'This book is the one scholars and students should turn to for the much needed analysis of the key theoretical concepts in Foucault’s work--concepts such as power, subjectivity, resistance and critique. It also provides a sustained defense of the consistency of Foucault’s views over time. Kelly has succeeded in grasping Foucault from the inside out.' – David Weberman, Central European University, Hungary
Text analytics runs through three theoretical fields ... of recognition. Taylor, Honneth and Butler ... approached to bring out the hypothesis that such theories are not enough to reach a utopian ...body, that is, a different political mobility as a result of the updates demanded in the contemporary world. It is here that Foucault's thought erupts. ... what is delineated, affirmed and desired in the text are other bodies for recognition in frank development. ... what is on stage is a genealogy of a long Erfindung, that is, of a long invention of Recognition, with a capital R. Such an invention, in turn, interposes itself between the fleeting flight of Minerva in the penumbra that insists on announcing itself and the dawns that remain to happen – Nietzsche, remembering Rigveda, said: “There are so many dawns that have not yet shone”. What possible dawns for another policy of recognition? What arises, from there, for the art of government, education and lives? Since Western Bildung, perhaps too tired for not recognizing itself, asks: where, how and why would the inclusion of unrecognized bodies be limited there? ... How many containers for the philosophy of education are there? And for thought? And for subjectivity? And for neoliberalism? And for the conscience that recognizes? And for the typified face that typifies the alien face? And for the body that will be abjected? And for the morbid gesture of the repetition of bureaucratic jouissance? And for so many strangers and excluded from this society?
This book provides a new perspective on Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge by revealing the extent to which its approach to language was influenced by the mathematical sciences. Setting out this ...background to Foucault’s analysis makes The Archaeology of Knowledge both accessible in a new way, and relevant to issues that are at the heart of much contemporary debate over the nature of critical thought and the relation between philosophy and the sciences. This book sheds new light on a crucial period of Foucault’s work by highlighting his relation to thinkers such as Cavaillès and Serres. It aims to provide a reading of The Archaeology of Knowledge that puts it at the heart Foucault’s thought. Rather than attempting a scientific study of language as such, Foucault is shown to have adopted a mode of thought indebted to thinkers in the scientific and epistemological tradition.
This collection combines 3 original essays by Deleuze and Foucault, in which they respond to each other's work, with 16 critical essays by key contemporary scholars working in the field.
Archives and the event of God Galston, David
Archives and the event of God,
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The Philosophical works of Michel Foucault have profoundly influenced many disciplines, but his influence on theology has seldom been considered. Archives and the Event of God unravels the effects ...that Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge and Discipline and Punish have had on the study of theology and religion. --Book Jacket.
This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something ...quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic of the liberal discourse of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976 onward, he makes increasing appeals to rights in his philosophical writings, political statements, interviews, and journalism. He not only defends their importance; he argues for rights new and as-yet-unrecognized. Does Foucault simply revise his former positions and endorse a liberal politics of rights? Ben Golder proposes an answer to this puzzle, which is that Foucault approaches rights in a spirit of creative and critical appropriation. He uses rights strategically for a range of political purposes that cannot be reduced to a simple endorsement of political liberalism. Golder develops this interpretation of Foucault's work while analyzing its shortcomings and relating it to the approaches taken by a series of current thinkers also engaged in considering the place of rights in contemporary politics, including Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière.
