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Care Of The Self And The Will To Freedom: Michel Foucault, Critique And Ethics, Stephanie M. Batters
Care Of The Self And The Will To Freedom: Michel Foucault, Critique And Ethics, Stephanie M. Batters
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Care of the Self and the Will to Freedom
Stephanie Batters
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Barber, English
What do subjectivity, power and ethics have in common? For French philosopher Michel Foucault, each of these concepts inherently resides within the others. His works, spanning from the mid-1950s to his death in 1984, offer a profound theoretical approach to the complex questions that obtain between the individual and society. Foucault’s works present careful and intricate theories about the relationships of the past with the present, the individual with society, and power with truth. Many of his writings explore how the individual is made …
Review Of Timothy O'Leary And Christopher Falzon's (Eds.) Foucault And Philosophy, Ladelle Mcwhorter
Review Of Timothy O'Leary And Christopher Falzon's (Eds.) Foucault And Philosophy, Ladelle Mcwhorter
Philosophy Faculty Publications
"Philosopher" was a label that Michel Foucault sometimes resisted, especially in the earlier decades of his career, but Timothy O'Leary and Christopher Falzon have assembled an excellent anthology of articles demonstrating Foucault's engagement with and contributions to contemporary philosophical practice throughout his life's work. The book examines and situates Foucault's work in relation to several major strands of philosophical tradition. It consists of an introduction and one paper each by the editors and an additional nine papers by well-known Foucault scholars including Gary Gutting, Jana Sawicki, Amy Allen, and Paul Patton, among others. There is no lack of interpretive disagreement …
"Shrinking Historicism": Review Of Dale Townshend, The Orders Of Gothic: Foucault, Lacan, And The Subject Of Gothic Writing 1764-1820, Edward Jacobs
"Shrinking Historicism": Review Of Dale Townshend, The Orders Of Gothic: Foucault, Lacan, And The Subject Of Gothic Writing 1764-1820, Edward Jacobs
English Faculty Publications
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