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Book Foucault s Nietzschean Genealogy

Download or read book Foucault s Nietzschean Genealogy written by Michael Mahon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche's writings on the thought of French philosopher Michel Foucault. Focusing on the notion of genealogy in the thought of both Nietzsche and Foucault, the author explores the three genealogical axes--truth, power, and the subject--as they gradually emerge in Foucault's writings. This complex of axes into which Foucault was drawn, especially as a result of his early history of madness, called forth his explicit adoption of a Nietzschean approach to his future work. By interpreting Foucault's Histoire de la folie in the light of Nietzsche's genealogy of tragedy, Mahon shows how the moral problematization of madness in history provides the historical conditions from which the three axes emerge. After tracing the gradual emergence of the three axes through Foucault's writings of the remainder of the 1960s, especially Les Mots et les choses, Mahon turns to Foucault's explicit methodological statements and his notion of genealogy and offers a reading of Foucault's L'archeologie du savoir, arguing that there is no chasm between Foucault's archaeological writings and his genealogies. The work concludes with an analysis of Foucault's final writings on the genealogy of modern subjectivity and an examination of how truth, power, and the subject operate for the modern psychoanalytic subject of desire.

Book The Passion of Michel Foucault

Download or read book The Passion of Michel Foucault written by James Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive new research and a bold interpretation of the man and his texts, The Passion of Michel Foucault is a startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers. It chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and professional odyssey, from his early interest in dreams to his final preoccupation with sexuality and the nature of personal identity.

Book Foucault

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clare O'Farrell
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 1993-06-18
  • ISBN : 1349131067
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Foucault written by Clare O'Farrell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-06-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the writings of Michael Foucault, focusing particularly on "Histoire de la Folie" written at the beginning of his career and "What is Enlightenment?" written at the end. Foucault's work is examined as a reflection on the "limits" of history, society and culture.

Book The Lives of Michel Foucault

Download or read book The Lives of Michel Foucault written by David Macey and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic biography of the radical French philosopher with a new afterword by acclaimed Foucault scholar Stuart Elden. When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II. His powerful studies of the creation of modern medicine, prisons, psychiatry, and other methods of classification have had a lasting impact on philosophers, historians, critics, and novelists the world over. But as public as he was in his militant campaigns on behalf of prisoners, dissidents, and homosexuals, he shrouded his personal life in mystery. In The Lives of Michel Foucault -- written with the full cooperation of Daniel Defert, Foucault's former lover -- David Macey gives the richest account to date of Foucault's life and work, informed as it is by the complex issues arising from his writings. In this new edition, Foucault scholar Stuart Elden has contributed a new afterword assessing the contribution of the biography in the light of more recent literature.

Book Foucault s Analysis of Modern Governmentality

Download or read book Foucault s Analysis of Modern Governmentality written by Thomas Lemke and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only partly been translated into English, that Foucault's concern with ethics and forms of subjectivation is always already integrated into his political concerns and his analytics of power. The book also shows how the concept of government was taken up in different lines of research in France before it gave rise to "governmentality studies" in the Anglophone world. Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality provides a clear and well-structured exposition that is theoretically challenging but also accessible for a wider audience. Thus, the book can be read both as an original examination of Foucault's concept of government and as a general introduction to his "genealogy of power."

Book Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis

Download or read book Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis written by Tim Dean and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic ideas for queer theory. The contributors, each distinguished clinicians and specialists, reexamine works by Freud, Klein, Reich, Lacan, Laplanche, and their feminist and queer revisionists. Sharing a commitment to conscious and unconscious forms of homosexual desire, they offer new perspectives on pleasure, perversion, fetishism, disgust, psychosis, homophobia, AIDS, otherness, and love. Including two previously untranslated essays by Michel Foucault, Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis will interest cultural theorists, psychoanalysts, and anyone concerned with the fate of sexuality in our time. Contributors: Lauren Berlant Leo Bersani Daniel L. Buccino Arnold I. Davidson Tim Dean Jonathan Dollimore Brad Epps Michel Foucault Lynda Hart Jason B. Jones Christopher Lane H. N. Lukes Catherine Millot Elizabeth A. Povinelli Ellie Ragland Paul Robinson Judith Roof Joanna Ryan Ramón E. Soto-Crespo Suzanne Yang

Book Dieu  l Afrique et l Occident  La force de la v  rit

Download or read book Dieu l Afrique et l Occident La force de la v rit written by Luqman THIAM and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-18 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une poésie engagée sur l'Afrique et l'Occident.Une dénonciation de la domination pernicieuse des pays occidentaux sur L'Afrique. Un vice latent des gouvernants qui ne considèrent que leurs propres intérêts face à un peuple à genoux et dépassé de toute part. La morale disparaît dans toutes les strates sociales. Cette dernière est évoquée cette fois-ci avec une influence de la religion musulmane qui n'est que la suite des autres confessions.L'Afrique va droit au mur poussée par ses chefs d'État soumis aux grandes institutions et aux "grandes nations". Si en haut certains redoutent de perdre leurs privilèges, en bas le réveil devient inéluctable.

Book The Comic Diderot

Download or read book The Comic Diderot written by Stephen Werner and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Emergence of Sexuality

Download or read book The Emergence of Sexuality written by Arnold Ira Davidson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving between philosophy and history, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sexuality.

Book The Comic Philosophes

Download or read book The Comic Philosophes written by Stephen Werner and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a study of philosophe fiction through comic irony that is its unifying feature. Readings are offered of exemplary philosophe narratives from Les Lettres persanes to Candide, Le Neveu de Rameau to Justine, as well as an analysis of the evolution of irony from the classical world of Montesquieu and Voltaire to the modern (and subversive) conceptions of Diderot and Sade. Professor Werner argues for a new understanding of comic irony as inseparable from the philosophe aesthetic and, through Sade, an expansion of its usual canon of authors.

Book Speaking the Truth about Oneself

Download or read book Speaking the Truth about Oneself written by Michel Foucault and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, this collection of Foucault’s lectures traces the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self. Just before the summer of 1982, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at Victoria University in Toronto. In these lectures, which were part of his project of writing a genealogy of the modern subject, he is concerned with the care and cultivation of the self, a theme that becomes central to the second, third, and fourth volumes of his History of Sexuality. Foucault had always been interested in the question of how constellations of knowledge and power produce and shape subjects, and in the last phase of his life, he became especially interested not only in how subjects are formed by these forces but in how they ethically constitute themselves. In this lecture series and accompanying seminar, Foucault focuses on antiquity, starting with classical Greece, the early Roman empire, and concluding with Christian monasticism in the fourth and fifth centuries AD. Foucault traces the development of a new kind of verbal practice—“speaking the truth about oneself”—in which the subject increasingly comes to be defined by its inner thoughts and desires. He deemed this new form of “hermeneutical” subjectivity important not just for historical reasons, but also due to its enduring significance in modern society.

Book The Long 1968

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel J. Sherman
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2013-07-16
  • ISBN : 0253009189
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Long 1968 written by Daniel J. Sherman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into a tumultuous year’s impact on art, culture, and politics, this book “illuminates the often-overlooked histories of 1968” (The Journal of American History). From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on new significance for the present moment, which bears certain uncanny resemblances to that time. The Long 1968 explores the wide-ranging impact of the year and its aftermath in politics, theory, the arts, and international relations—and its uses today.

Book Michel Foucault s Force of Flight

Download or read book Michel Foucault s Force of Flight written by James William Bernauer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civil Rights Movement Revisited

Download or read book The Civil Rights Movement Revisited written by Patrick B. Miller and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The crusade for civil rights was a defining episode of 20th century U.S. history, reshaping the constitutional, political, social, and economic life of the nation. This collection of original essays by both European and American scholars includes close analyses of literature and film, historical studies of significant themes and events from the turn-of-the century to the movement years, and assessments of the movement's legacies. Ultimately, the articles help examine the ways civil rights activism, often grounded in the political work of women, has shaped American consciousness and culture until the outset of the 21st century. Patrick Miller is Professor of History at North Eastern Illinois University, Chicago, Ill., USA. Elisabeth Schaefer-Wuensche teaches American Studies at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Therese Steffen is Professor of English at the University of Basel, Switzerland. "

Book Michel Foucault

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joan Nordquist
  • Publisher : Reference & Research Services
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Joan Nordquist and published by Reference & Research Services. This book was released on 1986 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le sexe et l Occident

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  • Author : Jean-Louis Flandrin
  • Publisher : Éditions du Seuil
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Le sexe et l Occident written by Jean-Louis Flandrin and published by Éditions du Seuil. This book was released on 1981 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C'est une idée très répandue, chez les Occidentaux d'aujourd'hui, que nous avons des difficultés particulières sur le plan sexuel, et qu'elles sont imputables à notre morale traditionnelle, d'essence chrétienne. Mais est-ce en reniant brutalement la morale de nos pères que nous surmonterons nos difficultés? En réalité, nous ne sommes pas libres de refuser notre héritage. Et plus nous voulons l'ignorer, plus nous en sommes prisonniers. En rendant à ce passé ce qu'on en a censuré, en montrant les rapports qui existaient entre telle attitude ancienne envers la sexualité et tels autres traits, abolis ou vivaces, de la culture occidentale, l'Histoire devrait permettre de réapprécier notre système de valeurs, et par là de surmonter les difficultés présentes.

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  • Publisher : Odile Jacob
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 2738174299
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book written by and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: