... another, making diversity an irreducible resource. “Being,” “truth,” and “time” are all Western categories whose aspects are presented altogether differently in Chinese. Displacement, in the sense of Michel Foucault or Gilles Deleuze, still premises a norm. So does any notion of a rooted cultural absolute...

..., Discursive History, and the Auto-Affection of God Eric Rothstein In what does [philosophical activity today] consist, if not in the endeavor to know how and to what extent it might be possible to think differently, instead of legitimating what is already known?-Michel Foucault...

... that technology gives to identity as a consolation prize. In A History of the Modern Fact Poovey provides a good example of the phenomenon. Focusing on statistics and the discourse of fact, she explores one domain of what Michel Foucault calls “governmentality,” which, as she defines it, is the study...

... writer and a feminist critic. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 Nancy Armstrong Michel Foucault feminist criticism D esire and Domestic Fiction took Jane Eyre away from me. That was disappointing. In the wake of Nancy Armstrong’s anatomization of that novel’s...

..., the reader will find no mention of Jean-Francois Lyotard, for example, or of his critique of “grand narratives,” with which Kavanagh’s perspective seems to resonate. The same could be said about the relation of Esthetics of the Moment to the work of Michel Foucault. Kavanagh’s argument...

... by Heath Stephen , 142 – 48 . New York : Hill and Wang . Foucault Michel . 1984 . “ What Is An Author? ” In The Foucault Reader , edited by Rabinow Paul , 101 – 20 . New York : Pantheon . McHenry Elizabeth . 2002 . Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History...

.... Engaging psychoanalysis and Marxism seized our attention, as in Fredric Jameson’s Political Unconscious (1981), and so too did the work of Michel Foucault, which Jameson kept his distance from. Eve Sedgwick’s Between Men (1985) made enlivening use of René Girard’s theory of mediation to achieve what...

...!” might be the rallying cry of the new book by David Rosen and Aaron Santesso. Their argument takes aim at the burgeoning minidiscipline of surveillance studies, which insists with Michel Foucault that the more closely we are watched, the more we become molded to the needs of a powerful system that uses...

... on specific theorists-Michel Foucault, Fredric Jameson, Paul Ricoeur, and the post-Hegelian Droysen-and four on ques- tions involving textuality, narrativity, and history. The essays on Jameson and Ricoeur declare White’s belief in narrativ- ized history-narrative considered, in Jameson’s...

... be compatible with current scholarship on the representation of the Orient—much of it engaged with Michel Foucault—especially Geraldine Heng’s influential book on medieval accounts of the Orient ( Empire of Magic , 2003), which shares with Frye an emphasis on romance. More generally, the fundamentally...

.... For whatever the vitalist continuities of Bassnett’s principles, her practice cannot escape a truism formulated by Michel Foucault, who writes, “Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.”2 And cut she does. The table of contents for “History...

.... Let’s put some pressure on parrhesia , for example. I wonder why James does not spend more time engaging with Michel Foucault’s Fearless Speech lectures (1983). While I understand that Foucault might seem passé in our post-post theory moment, he poses some problems that remain unresolved . For one...

... : Droz . Foucault Michel . 1991 . “ Governmentality .” In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality , edited by Burchell Graham Gordon Colin Miller Peter , 87 – 104 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Reviews Homer and the Politics of Authority...

... , translated by Emerson Caryl and Holquist Michael , 259 – 422 . Austin : University of Texas Press . Brown Homer Obed . 1997 . Institutions of the English Novel: From Defoe to Scott . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Foucault Michel . 1978...

... by Michel Foucault’s account of the supersession of the classical by the modern épistémè in the same period. Two processes that Koselleck considered fundamental to the emergence of a self-conscious modernity were the temporalization of history, whereby a linear conception of historical time replaced...

... that is neither desultory nor trendy but boldly astute and often ingenious. His reflections on Troilus and Cressida fruitfully engage with the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I , which in turn leads to a consideration of Michel Foucault’s lectures on governmentality and the care of the self. The examination...

... at demonstrating Homer’s fundamental importance in the context of problems of governance and sovereignty that have been made newly urgent by Michel Foucault (1991). On a methodological level, Bizer’s central critical interlocutors also include Grafton, Jardine, Timothy Hampton, and Christian Jouhaud...

... fundamental importance in the context of problems of governance and sovereignty that have been made newly urgent by Michel Foucault (1991). On a methodological level, Bizer’s central critical interlocutors also include Grafton, Jardine, Timothy Hampton, and Christian Jouhaud, whom he uses...

... fundamental importance in the context of problems of governance and sovereignty that have been made newly urgent by Michel Foucault (1991). On a methodological level, Bizer’s central critical interlocutors also include Grafton, Jardine, Timothy Hampton, and Christian Jouhaud, whom he uses...

... of that “history of literal secularization and emotional straitening,” in which the disciplining of the unruly heroine stands under the sign of the book’s dedication, “To His Royal Highness the Prince Regent.” On occasion, Jager may follow his inner Michel Foucault too closely, may frame the power dynamic too...