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A Companion to Foucault 1st Edition by Christopher Falzon, ISBN-13: 978-1444334067
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- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (April 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- 632 pages
- ISBN-10: 1444334069
- ISBN-13: 978-1444334067
A Companion to Foucault comprises a collection of essays from established and emerging scholars that represent the most extensive treatment of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s works currently available.
For close to half a century, the innovative thought of French philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault has exercised an enormous influence across a wide range of disciplines–and continues to be widely debated in intellectual circles. A Companion to Foucault is the most extensive and up-to-date anthology of explorations of Michel Foucault’s work currently available. Featuring essays from a wide range of established and emerging Foucault scholars, chapters address various thematic aspects of Foucault’s major works, including his recently published courses at the Collège de France. Additional essays consider Foucault’s writings on such topics as knowledge and critique; power and government; sex and gender; ethics and modernity; as well as religion, race, and the environment. Also featured is the first full translation of Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronology’ of Foucault’s life and works from Dits et Ecrits, along with a comprehensive bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English, cross-referenced to the standard French edition. Indispensable in its own right, A Companion to Foucault sheds important new light on one of the major twentieth-century figures in the world of ideas.
Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations xiv
Introduction 1
Part I Landmarks 9
1 Chronology 11 Daniel Defert
2 History of Madness 84 Colin Gordon
3 The Order of Things 104 Patrice Maniglier
4 On the Powers of the False: Foucault’s Engagements with the Arts 122 Joseph J. Tanke
5 Discipline and Punish 137 Alan D. Schrift
6 Reading The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 154 Richard A. Lynch
7 From Resistance to Government: Foucault’s Lectures 1976–1979 172 Paul Patton
8 Foucault’s Untimely Struggle 189 Paul Rabinow
Part II Knowledge and Critique 205
9 Foucault’s Normative Epistemology 207 Linda Martín Alcoff
10 Foucault and the Freudians 226 Wendy Grace
11 Foucault on Critical Agency in Painting and the Aesthetics of Existence 243 Michael Kelly
12 Foucault on Kant, Enlightenment, and Being Critical 264 Marc Djaballah
13 Making History 282 Christopher Falzon
Part III Power and Governmentality 299
14 Power, Resistance, and Freedom 301 Jon Simons
15 From Biopower to Governmentality 320 Johanna Oksala
16 Power and the Subject 337 Amy Allen
17 Power, Politics, Racism 353 Brad Elliott Stone
18 Foucault, Religion, and Pastoral Power 368 Jeremy Carrette
19 Space, Territory, Geography 384 Jeremy W. Crampton
Part IV Sexuality, Gender, and Race 401
20 Toward a Feminist “Politics of Ourselves” 403 Dianna Taylor
21 Infamous Men, Dangerous Individuals, and Violence against Women: Feminist Re-readings of Foucault 419 Chloë Taylor
22 Foucault’s Eros: For an Ethics of Living in Biopower 436 Lynne Huffer
23 The Missing Link: Homo Economicus (Reading Foucault and Bataille Together) 454 Shannon Winnubst
24 Genealogies of Race and Gender 472 David-Olivier Gougelet and Ellen K. Feder
Part V Ethics and Modernity 491
25 Foucault’s Ontology and Epistemology of Ethics 493 James D. Faubion
26 Foucault, Subjectivity, and Technologies of the Self 510 Mark G. E. Kelly
27 The Formation and Self-Transformation of the Subject in Foucault’s Ethics 526 Colin Koopman
28 Foucault, Nature, and the Environment 544 Paul Alberts
Appendix 562
Michel Foucault’s Shorter Works in English: Bibliography and Concordance 562 Richard A. Lynch
Index 593
Christopher Falzon is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of Foucault and Social Dialogue (1998), Philosophy Goes to the Movies (2002 & 2007), and co-editor, with Timothy O’Leary, of Foucault and Philosophy (2010).
Timothy O’Leary is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on Foucault, including Foucault and the Art of Ethics (2002) and Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book (2009). He is also co-editor, with Christopher Falzon, of Foucault and Philosophy (2010).
Jana Sawicki is Carl Vogt Professor of Philosophy at Williams College in Western Massachusetts. She is the author of Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power and the Body (1991) and is guest editor (with Shannon Winnubst) of a special issue of Foucault Studies on Foucault and queer theory. She has written many articles on Foucault, feminism and queer theory.
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