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Against Totalitarianism: Agamben, Foucault, And The Politics Of Critique, C. Heike Schotten
Against Totalitarianism: Agamben, Foucault, And The Politics Of Critique, C. Heike Schotten
C. Heike Schotten
Despite appearances, Agamben’s engagement with Foucault in Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life is not an extension of Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics but ra-ther a disciplining of Foucault for failing to take Nazism seriously. This moralizing rebuke is the result of methodological divergences between the two thinkers that, I argue, have fun-damental political consequences. Re-reading Foucault’s most explicitly political work of the mid-1970s, I show that Foucault’s commitment to genealogy is aligned with his commitment to “insurrection”—not simply archival or historical, but practical and political insurrection—even as his non-moralizing understanding of critique makes space for the resistances he hopes …
Università Di Parma – “La Società Degli Individui” – Fondazione Per La Critica Sociale, Conference: “Della Critica. Filosofia E Teoria Sociale In Luc Boltanski”, Parma, Paper: “Sui Limiti Della Sociologia Pragmatica Della Critica”, March 5th, 2015., Marco Solinas
Marco Solinas
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“Psicoterapia E Scienze Umane” Seminari Internazionali, Bologna, Lecture: “Sulla Teoria Del Riconoscimento Di Axel Honneth. Forme E Usi Filosofico-Sociali Della Psicoanalisi”, February 21th, 2015., Marco Solinas
Marco Solinas
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Review Of Ziporyn, Ironies And Beyond Oneness, Stephen C. Angle
Review Of Ziporyn, Ironies And Beyond Oneness, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Near the end of the second volume of the two books under review (hereafter referred to as Ironies and Beyond Oneness), Brook Ziporyn says that his goal has been to “provide the power to think a greater number of more greatly differing thoughts.... Truth is important, but it is important only because it makes things so much more interesting” (2/314). No one who reads these books with any charity can deny that he has achieved this goal—in fact, far exceeded it. Ziporyn takes on the deepest issues and most difficult texts from a …