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Book Michel Foucault

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-François Bert
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Jean-François Bert and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Les écrits de Michel Foucault sont stratifiés, hiérarchisés, entre les livres, les entretiens et les cours au Collège de France, mais ils sont surtout disséminés dans leurs usages. Désormais, et en plus de l'histoire des sciences et de la philosophie, les "effets" Foucault sont palpables sur la théorie de la littérature et du cinéma, l'histoire culturelle et sociale, les théories du genre, la pensée politique, les sciences de gestion ... C'est dans ce chantier ouvert que se situe cet ouvrage. Il s'agit pour Jérôme Lamy, Jean-François Bert et leur équipe de spécialistes de resituer et d'analyser une pensée empruntant des questionnements à d'autres champs, de la psychologie à l'économie, de la science politique à la géographie, tout en ne se réclamant pas de ces sciences humaines et sociales. Pour comprendre la position de Foucault, les grands axes méthodologiques qu'il a parcourus sont retracés, telle l'archéologie, l'épistémè, la problématisation. Les concepts, des ouvrages maintenant classiques aux cours et à l'histoire de la sexualité, sont également revisités. Cette lecture critique des écrits et des usages de Foucault permet de le confronter aux analyses les plus récentes en sciences sociales, comme les postcolonial studies, ou de suivre les dialogues engagés (parfois à distance) avec des auteurs comme Norbert Elias, Michel de Certeau et Pierre Bourdieu. Un inventaire aussi rigoureux qu'éclairant."--Page 4 of cover.

Book Michel Foucault

    Book Details:
  • Author : Collectif
  • Publisher : Sciences Humaines
  • Release : 2017-02-23
  • ISBN : 2361064014
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Collectif and published by Sciences Humaines. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Que faire aujourd'hui de l'oeuvre de Michel Foucault ? Quelle est sa cohérence, sa pertinence, sa portée ? Sans allégeance ni défiance, les auteurs de cet ouvrage construisent ici un bilan critique, honnête et fécond. Michel Foucault L'homme et l'oeuvre Héritage et bilan critique Faire une oeuvre dans sa vie, faire une oeuvre de sa vie : l'un et l'autre des desseins de M. Foucault - décédé du sida il y a plus de trente ans -, ont fini par se confondre. De lui subsistent mille facettes. Philosophe critique, historien de la folie, penseur du sujet, militant des prisons, fossoyeur de l'humanisme, précurseur des gays studies, bricoleur de concepts, reporter en Iran, star médiatique, adulé et honni. Il fut tout cela à la fois, symptôme de ce vingtième siècle français qui porta aux nues la figure de l'intellectuel. Et après ? On changea d'époque, de préoccupations, de paradigmes. Le marxisme quitta la scène, le structuralisme se périma, la folie trouva de nouveaux porte-voix, le monde devint multipolaire. L'histoire aurait pu se contenter de ranger la pensée foucaldienne au rayon des affaires classées. Elle aurait pu la momifier et la canoniser. Mais Foucault ne se laisse pas enterrer si facilement. Cette pensée, labile et rebelle, connaît un destin singulier ; elle s'est émancipée des livres qui l'ont enfantée. On peut l'affirmer aujourd'hui sans exagérer : il existe un nouveau Foucault. Des textes inédits ont été publiés. Cours au Collège de France, émissions de radio retranscrites, conférences dans des universités à travers le monde. On lui découvre de nouveaux thèmes, d'autres méthodes. Telle une herbe folle et sauvage, cette oeuvre continue ainsi à pousser, se déplacer, se ramifier, changeant de physionomie au fil du temps. Parallèlement, sa réception prend un tour inattendu. Il existe un Foucault français, italien, américain, japonais. Des psychologues, juristes, médiateurs, médecins, architectes, politistes se réclament de lui. La parole de Foucault se promène même sur les planches, captée par des metteurs en scène. Ses concepts circulent partout, ils sont brandis, branchés, mais il n'est pas certain que Foucault soit vraiment lu et compris autant qu'il est cité. Que faire aujourd'hui de cette pensée ? Quelle est sa cohérence, sa pertinence, sa portée ? Autant de questions qui animent cet ouvrage. La plupart des auteurs appartiennent à une nouvelle génération de chercheurs. Sans allégeance ni défiance, ils construisent ici un bilan critique, honnête et fécond. Ouvrage coordonné par Héloïse Lhérété avec les contributions de : S. Baldassarra, M. Behrent, G. Bellon, J.-F. Bert, P. Bonditti, P.-H. Castel, F. Dubet, D. Fassin, É Fassin, A. Garapon, F. Gros, G. Le Blanc, J.-C. Monod, L. Nicolas, M. Potte-Bonneville, P. Raynaud, J. Revel, M. Senellart...

Book Michel Foucault

    Book Details:
  • Author : Héloïse Lhérété
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Héloïse Lhérété and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding Foucault  Understanding Modernism

Download or read book Understanding Foucault Understanding Modernism written by David Scott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault remains to this day a thinker who stands unchallenged as one of the most important of the 20th century. Among the characteristics that have made him influential is his insistent blurring of the border separating philosophy and literature and art, carried out on the basis of his confronting the problem of modernism, which he characterizes as a permanent task. To that end, even his most explicitly historical or strictly epistemological and methodological enquiries, which on their surface would seem not to have anything to do with literature, are full of allusions to modernist writers and artists like Mallarme, Baudelaire, Artaud, Klee, Borges, Broch-sometimes fleetingly, sometimes more extensively, as is the case with Foucault's life-long devotion to Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot, and de Sade. Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism shows, on the one hand, that literature and the arts play a fundamental structural role in Foucault's works, while, on the other hand, it shifts to the foreground what it presumes to be motivating Foucault: the interrogation of the problem of modernism.

Book Foucault and Postmodern Conceptions of Reason

Download or read book Foucault and Postmodern Conceptions of Reason written by Laurence Barry and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​For decades Foucault was mostly known for his diagnosis of modernity as a form of entrapment, both in our modes of thought and our behaviors. This book argues that Foucault's reappraisal of modernity occurs with the 1978 and 1979 lectures, in which he sketches modern power as governmentality and neoliberalism. From this perspective, Foucault’s once surprising studies on the Greeks' constitution of the ‘self’ can be seen as a continuation of his diagnosis of late modernity, and as an attempt to retrieve a form of autonomy for our modern selves. One finds in the late Foucault a postmodern conception of reason and not a destruction of reason; but this is possible only if postmodernity is seen as a critical exercise of reason in the analysis of norms.

Book Foucault s Orient

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  • Author : Marnia Lazreg
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2017-10-01
  • ISBN : 1785336231
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Foucault s Orient written by Marnia Lazreg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the “Orient” constitute the “limit” of Western rationality. Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars in Tunisia, Japan and France, this book examines the philosophical sources, evolution as well as contradictions of Foucault’s experience with non-Western cultures. Beyond tracing Foucault’s journey into the world of otherness, the book reveals the personal, political as well as methodological effects of a radical conception of cultural difference that extolled the local over the cosmopolitan.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art written by Bruno David and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 1185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.

Book Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

Download or read book Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy written by Gianfrancesco Zanetti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas. It provides an essential reference for experts and newcomers alike.

Book The Politics of Heritage in Africa

Download or read book The Politics of Heritage in Africa written by Derek R. Peterson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide currency.

Book Towards a critique of Foucault

Download or read book Towards a critique of Foucault written by Mike Gane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Michel Foucault, one of the most influential of modern French social theorists and philosophers, has had a dramatic and far-reaching effect on many disciplines. The essays in this reissued collection, originally published in 1986, present Foucault's work as an important contribution to the theoretical analysis of history, language and power. They also represent a critical response to this contribution, encouraging readers not only to read Foucault for themselves, but to think about some new problems in a new way.

Book Michel Foucault

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Owen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-05-15
  • ISBN : 1351917838
  • Pages : 581 pages

Download or read book Michel Foucault written by David Owen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers whose work has unsettled and transformed the field of social philosophy and the social sciences. The essays and articles selected for this volume are written by many of the most important of Foucault’s interpreters and interlocutors and show the range of Foucault’s influence and the debates it has provoked about Foucault’s own approaches and in relation to substantive areas of social philosophy and social science such as power, critique, enlightenment, law, governance, ethics and truthfulness. This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, the development of Foucault’s thought and demonstrates its enduring significance on our understanding of how we have become what we are.

Book Foucault  Marxism and Critique

Download or read book Foucault Marxism and Critique written by Barry Smart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of 'the social', and the associated socialisation of politics. He argues that there exist clear and substantial differences between Foucault's genealogical analysis and that of Marxist theory. Smart thus presents Foucault's work as a new form of critical theory, whose object is a critical analysis of rationalities, and of how relations of power are rationalised.

Book Information Literacy and Cultural Heritage

Download or read book Information Literacy and Cultural Heritage written by Kim Baker and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a complex and contested terrain of cultural heritage in the library, archive and museum context. Information Literacy and Cultural Heritage explores this landscape and covers perspectives from museums, archives and libraries, highlighting the role of memory and contested history in the collection, description and presentation of cultural heritage. The book argues that the convergence of libraries, archives and museums in digital preservation should be extended to include the development of combined lifelong learning programmes, teaching both information literacy skills and awareness of cultural heritage.This title is structured into seven chapters, covering cultural heritage in the library, archive and museum context; digital information contexts; an overview of information literacy models of stages and processes, as well as models of standards, competencies and performance indicators. The book then examines the role of critical thinking and lifelong learning; proposes a generic model of information literacy and cultural heritage for lifelong learning; offers guidelines for adapting the model to local contexts; and offers a conclusion. - Covers cultural heritage in the museums, archives and library context - Explores the place of cultural heritage and social issues in the digital information context - Reviews existing models of information literacy processes, standards and indicators

Book Recognizing Heritage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas H. Guthrie
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2021-11-08
  • ISBN : 1496203747
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Recognizing Heritage written by Thomas H. Guthrie and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006 Congress established the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area to recognize the four-hundred-year "coexistence" of Spanish and Indian peoples in New Mexico and their place in the United States. National heritage areas enable local communities to partner with the federal government to promote historic preservation, cultural conservation, and economic development. Recognizing Heritage explores the social, political, and historical context of this and other public efforts to interpret and preserve Native American and Hispanic heritage in northern New Mexico. The federal government's recognition of New Mexico's cultural distinctiveness contrasts sharply with its earlier efforts to wipe out Indian and Hispanic cultures. Yet even celebrations of cultural difference can reinforce colonial hierarchies. Multiculturalism and colonialism have overlapped in New Mexico since the nineteenth century, when Anglo-American colonists began promoting the region's unique cultures and exotic images to tourists. Thomas H. Guthrie analyzes the relationship between heritage preservation and ongoing struggles over land, water, and identity resulting from American colonization. He uses four sites within the heritage area to illustrate the unintentional colonial effects of multiculturalism: a history and anthropology museum, an Indian art market, a "tricultural" commemorative plaza, and a mountain village famous for its adobe architecture. Recognizing Heritage critiques the politics of recognition and suggests steps toward a more just multiculturalism that fundamentally challenges colonial inequalities.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research written by E. Waterton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the field as it is currently researched, understood and practiced around the world.

Book Michel Foucault

Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Rudi Visker and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995-07-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reception of Michel Foucault’s work has often been divided between two unsatisfactory alternatives. On the one had there are those who admire the detail of his concrete analysis, but wonder how the political and ethical commitments they seem to rely on can be justified. On the other, there are those who deny the need for normative foundations, but also find it difficult to explain what makes Foucault’s archaeologies and genealogies critical. Rudi Visker’s book is not only a lucid and elegant survey of Foucault’s corpus, from his early work on madness to the History of Sexuality, but also a major intervention in this debate. Reading Foucault against the Heideggarian backdrop to his work, Visker shows that Foucault’s target is not order as such, but rather the production of ordering systems which cannot acknowledge their own conditions of possibility. Exploring along the way such intriguing issues as the ambivalence of Foucault’s concepts of truth and power, and his philosophically provocative use of quotation marks, Visker portrays Foucault as neither relativist nor positivist, neither activist nor detached observer. Instead, Foucault emerges as the inventor of a new analysis of our modern mechanisms of control and exclusion: precisely of ‘genealogy as critique’.

Book Discourse  Ideology and Heritage Language Socialization

Download or read book Discourse Ideology and Heritage Language Socialization written by Martin Guardado and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the development and maintenance of a minority language, engaging on both micro and macro levels to address open questions in the field. Guardado provides a history of the study of language maintenance, including discussion of language socialization, cosmopolitan identities, and home practices. In particular, the author uses 'discourse' as a primary tool to understand minority language development and maintenance.