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Book Freedom  Foucault  and the Subject of America

Download or read book Freedom Foucault and the Subject of America written by Lee Quinby and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Michel Foucault's theories of power, this study examines issues of American individuality, ethics and freedom. Through detailed critical readings of a wide range of important American texts, the author identifies an aesthetics of liberty, an ethical tradition that presents the creation of self as an exercise of personal freedom and civic responsibility. She argues that this tradition of ethics has been and continues to be the chief means by which Americans challenge dominant modes of disciplinary power.

Book Foucault and the Freedom of the Modem Subject

Download or read book Foucault and the Freedom of the Modem Subject written by Joonsuh Jo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foucault on Freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johanna Oksala
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-06-16
  • ISBN : 9780521847797
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Foucault on Freedom written by Johanna Oksala and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in Foucault's philosophy and examines its three major divisions.

Book Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom

Download or read book Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom written by Thomas L. Dumm and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-02-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers familiar with Foucault's work will appreciate the difficulty in critically studying its arresting paradoxical nature. Dumm (political science, Amherst College) negotiates the problem by creating a thematic framework--the idea of being "free" in a modern Western capitalist democracy--and examining it through a Foucaultian lens. He focuses on the politics of freedom, negative freedom, the disciplinary society, ethics, seduction, governments, and provides an enlightening companion to Foucault's postmodern philosophy. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Foucault and the Subject of Freedom

Download or read book Foucault and the Subject of Freedom written by Brian Seitz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Foucault Primer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alec McHoul
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-03-24
  • ISBN : 1136996877
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book A Foucault Primer written by Alec McHoul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are we today? That deceptively simple question continued to be asked by the French historian and philosopher, Michel Foucault, who for the last three decades has had a profound influence on English-speaking scholars in the humanities and social sciences.; This text is designed for undergraduates and others who feel in need of some assistance when coming to grips with Foucault's voluminous and complex writings. Instead of dealing with them chronologically, however, this book concentrates on some of their central concepts, primarily Foucault's rethinking of the categories of "discourse", "power", and " the subject".; Foucault's writings contribute collectively to what he himself calls "an ontology of the present". His historical research was always geared towards showing how things could have been and still could be otherwise. This is especially the case with respect to the production of human subjects.

Book The Spoils of Freedom

Download or read book The Spoils of Freedom written by Renata Salecl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies is one of the most frightening repercussions of the collapse of socialism. Using psychoanalytic theories of fantasy to investigate why such extremist ideologies have taken hold, Renata Salecl argues that the major social and political changes in post-communist Eastern Europe require a radical re-evaluation of notions of liberal theories of democracy. In doing so she offers a new approach to human rights and feminism grounded in her own active partipation in the struggles, first against communism and now against nationalism and anti-feminism.

Book Michel Foucault

Download or read book Michel Foucault written by John Rajchman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Freedom From Domination

Download or read book Freedom From Domination written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I then explore Foucault's criticism of the modern concept of autonomy, which he believes to be inherited from the Enlightenment and, more specifically, Kant. In spite of these criticisms, Foucault does not dispense with the concept of freedom as autonomy altogether, but instead must embrace a concept of social freedom, similar to that which is found in contemporary recognition theory. Therefore, we should characterize Foucault's normative stance as that of a coupling of a general concept of social freedom with what I call a "metaethico-political openness principle" committing us to acts of resistance that would attempt to push the boundaries of recognition so that we may affirm previously unimagined ways of life.

Book The Foucault Effect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michel Foucault
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1991-07-09
  • ISBN : 9780226080451
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The Foucault Effect written by Michel Foucault and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-07-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures on rationalities of government, this work examines the art or activity of government and the different ways in which it has been made thinkable and practicable. There are also contributions of other scholars exploring modern manifestations of government.

Book Ethics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michel Foucault
  • Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780140259544
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Ethics written by Michel Foucault and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 2000 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 in the ESSENTIAL WORKS OF FOUCAULT series and originally published by Allen Lane in 1997, a collection of articles, interviews and lectures on the subject of ethics, written by the twentieth century French philosopher, Michel Foucault and translated into English.

Book Cultural Semiosis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh J. Silverman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-04-23
  • ISBN : 1317827988
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Cultural Semiosis written by Hugh J. Silverman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Semiosis traces the theoretical itinerary of the signifier in the continental tradition. Cultural semiosis provides links for cultural studies to the philosophical, the literary, the historical and the social. Understood semiotically, cultural signs and signifiers are inscribed in the fabric of cultural practices. Cultural semiosis enters the spaces of everyday language, visuality, sexuality and symbolization. These original essays interpret and provide tools for the understanding of cultural studies within a philosophical framework. Contributors: M. Alison Arnett, Debra Bergoffen, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Adi Ophir, Francois Raffoul, Mark Roberts, Stephanie Sage, Hugh J. Silverman.

Book The Late Foucault

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marta Faustino
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-06-30
  • ISBN : 1350196770
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book The Late Foucault written by Marta Faustino and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marta Faustino and Gianfranco Ferraro present a collection of essays by esteemed academics on the ethical and political questions present in Michel Foucault's late work. As one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, the philosopher's last works are at the centre of much current academic research and debate. Comprising 15 essays written by specialists on Foucault's thought from 10 different countries, the perspectives offered by the contributors and the thinker himself can help us to unravel modernity and give us the tools to understand and ethically and politically transform our present"--

Book The Working Self and the Subject of Freedom  Michel Foucault s Analytics of Liberalism and the Work Ethic as a Technique of Liberal Governmentality

Download or read book The Working Self and the Subject of Freedom Michel Foucault s Analytics of Liberalism and the Work Ethic as a Technique of Liberal Governmentality written by George V. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second, this dissertation provides an overview of Foucault's "critical ontology" of liberalism; Foucault's work on disciplinary power and bio-politics, I argue, provides a useful critique that reveals how the space of freedom is actually constituted by specific political practices and how the production of this space assumes a specific kind of liberal subject, which is the product of disciplinary and bio-political regimes. Assessing Foucault's body of work though this "governmentality" lens reveals a more continuous line of thought concerned not only with power and subjectivity, but also government.

Book Fearless Speech

Download or read book Fearless Speech written by Michel Foucault and published by Semiotext(e). This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures given as part of Foucault's seminar on Discourse and truth, at the University of California at Berkeley, 1983. The seminar was devoted to the study of the Greek notion of 'parrhesia' or 'frankness in speaking the truth'

Book Michel Foucault

Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Philip Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and original study analyzes Foucault's interaction with the history of ideas, undertaking a genealogy of the subject that subverts conventional philosophical history to develop a distinctly Foucauldian intellectual history. Through a detailed account of Foucault's work and its relation to the history of ideas, Philip Barker shows how that history can be usefully reconceptualised using Foucault's concepts of genealogy and archaeology. Locating the emergence of self-reflexive consciousness in twelfth century philosophy, and elaborating upon autobiography as a philosophical persona, Barker argues that this extremely productive approach can be used to analyze the relationship between the history of philosophy, psychoanalysis and the transparent subject.

Book Politics of Piety

    Book Details:
  • Author : Saba Mahmood
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0691149801
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Politics of Piety written by Saba Mahmood and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. The author's exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are linked within the context of such movements.