...Mark Mazower © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Foucault, Agamben: Theory and the Nazis Mark Mazower It was “a threatening world which could crush us . . . a situation that had to end.” “Waiting for the dawn,” was how he...

...Ed Cohen Both Michel Foucault and Bernard Stiegler underscore the importance of “care” as a political and philosophical value. This article juxtaposes Stiegler's embrace of “mystagogy” and Foucault's use of “psychagogy” in order to suggest why each of these thinkers dares to care. © 2017 by Duke...

...Stuart Elden Duke University Press 2002 The War of Races and the Constitution of the State: Foucault’s «Il faut défendre la société» and the Politics of Calculation Stuart Elden What is meant by the word constitution? If we take...

...Gary Gutting Duke University Press 2002 Foucault’s Philosophy of Experience Gary Gutting Michel Foucault was always, and quite deliberately, a moving target, so he may well have demurred from the idea that these three thick...

...Donald E. Pease “The Crisis of Critique in Postcolonial Modernity” situates Michel Foucault's method of genealogical analysis within the history of critique, examines the usage to which David Scott has put Foucault to reconfigure the problem-space of postcolonial studies, and explains how Scott's...

...Manuel DeLanda The subject of this essay is the authority structure of institutional organizations. Authority has two aspects: its legitimacy and its enforcement. Max Weber gave us the means to think about the practices involved in the legitimation of authority, while Michel Foucault provided us...

...Ubaraj Katawal This article examines William V. Spanos’s works in relation to those of other postcolonial thinkers such as Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Edward Said. Like many of these writers, Spanos draws from Michel Foucault’s critique of the power-knowledge relation. However...

... culture. It then proceeds to analyze the culturalism disguised by the vocabulary of Foucault in the work of anthropologists Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood. It concludes by reflecting on the concepts of gratitude and the visceral in the writings of political theorist William Connolly. © 2013 by Duke...

...Wlad Godzich This is a brief introduction to the life and work of Friedrich Kittler placed in the context of his relation to Heidegger, Foucault, and Lacan. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) Wlad Godzich...

...; from Germany’s coming to terms with its Nazi past to contemporary memory studies; from world literature and globalization to the humanities education today; from his intellectual debt to Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault to his first exposure to the work of Theodor Adorno, and his relationship with...

... popularity across disciplines and genres and attained its narrative cohesion through its complex relationship with fiction. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 somapolitics criminal anthropology race Foucault empire References Agamben Giorgio . 2000a . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and...

... legally interpreted as his will, Michel Foucault made his views on this subject clear. As a result, the fourth volume of the His- tory of Sexuality series, Les Aveux de la chair [The confession of the flesh], which Foucault was working on at the time of his death, remains unpub- lished.1 And yet texts...

...Colin Gordon 2004 Letter to the Editor 15 March 2004 In his review of Essential Works of Foucault: 1954–1984 (New York: New Press, 1997–2000), in boundary 2 29:2 (Summer 2002), Gary Gutting com- pliments the editors, Paul Rabinow and James Faubion, on the introductions and content...

...?” to contemporary critical theory is its immanent cri- tique of theory’s material embeddedness in global capitalism. The essay exposes the myriad ways in which Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s accounts of power were ideologically blind to the international division of labor (IDL). Spivak...

.... His books include Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason, The Cambridge Com- panion to Foucault, Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity, and French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. He is founder and editor of a new electronic book-review journal, Notre Dame Philosophical...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2006 Toward Global Democracy: James Baldwin and the Stoic Vision of Amor Fati Daniel T. O’Hara One of Michel Foucault’s final lecture courses, published recently as The Hermeneutics of the...

... Michel Foucault’s account of power as exclusionary repression that is widespread in contem- porary theory, and (2) understand precisely how the relation of norms to life in his analytics of biopower diverges sharply from that found in the recog- nition paradigm. 1. Versions of Recognition...

... organizational form, but I would like to add, following the work of Michel Foucault, that the description of a legitimate order emanating from a formal structure worked out in detail by jurists (and other creators of formal legality) needs to be complemented by a description of the day-to-day exercise of...

...:11 110 boundary 2 / Fall 2003 formulation of modernity. Among the most prominent and formative of these theorists for Graham’s argument are Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, and Bruno...

... texts, on the other hand. 3. In defining this program, I am trying to combine the legacies of Marx (think of his cri- tique of “bourgeois universalism” in the early essay “On the Jewish Question” [1844]) and Foucault (think of his genealogy of the “empirico- transcendental doublet” in The Order...