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Foucault’s theatres
The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault’s critical thought. With cutting edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the volume aims to be accessible for both experienced researchers and advanced students encountering Foucault’s work for the first time. The introduction sets out a thorough and informative assessment of Foucault’s relevance to theatre and performance studies and to our present cultural moment – it rereads his profound engagement with questions of truth, power and politics, in light of previously unknown writings and lectures set in relation to current political and cultural concerns. Unique to this volume is the discovery of a ‘theatrical’ Foucault - the profound affinity of his thinking with questions of performativity. This discovery makes accessible the ‘performance turn’ to readers of Foucault, while opening up ways of reading Foucault’s oeuvre ‘theatrically’.
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The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault’s political and philosophical thought across his career. It argues, in the areas of epistemology, power, subjectivity, resistance, politics, and ethics, that Foucault’s work represents the articulation of a consistent and progressive philosophical and political viewpoint. The work is thus an important intervention into the field of Foucault studies, where many continue to claim that Foucault’s work is contradictory, nonsensical, or nihilistic.
Introduction 1. Epistemology 2. Power I 3. Power II 4. Subjectivity 5. Resistance 6. Critique 7. Ethics
Mark G.E. Kelly is Lecturer in Philosophy at Middlesex University.
'This book is the one scholars and students should turn to for the much needed analysis of the key theoretical concepts in Foucault’s work--concepts such as power, subjectivity, resistance and critique. It also provides a sustained defense of the consistency of Foucault’s views over time. Kelly has succeeded in grasping Foucault from the inside out.' – David Weberman, Central European University, Hungary
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Archives and the Event of God
The philosophical works of Michel Foucault have profoundly influenced many disciplines, but his influence on theology has seldom been considered. Archives and the Event of God unravels the effects that Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge and Discipline and Punish have had on the study of theology and religion.
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Governmentality
First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, \"governmentality\" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is \"governmentality\"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political power and its contestation? This new introduction offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students both a highly accessible guide and an original contribution to debates about power and governmentality.
The book aims to serve four main functions:
To situate governmentality as an intellectual development within Foucault's thinking about the microphysics of power and his genealogical methods;
To reveal how research in governmentality has changed as the idea encounters new academic fields, political contexts and regional settings;
To examine one of the more recent encounters between governmentality and the social sciences - its interaction with international relations and global politics;
To offer researchers some methodological suggestions for undertaking studies in governmentality, stressing that its critical edge becomes blunted if it is detached from historical/genealogical modes of inquiry.
This book offers a set of conceptual and methodological observations intended to keep research in governmentality a living, critical thought project. Above all, it argues that the challenge of understanding the world calls for the addition of new thinking equipment to the governmentality toolbox. Governmentality: Critical Encounters will prove useful for students of social and political theory, international relations, political sociology, anthropology and geography.
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Foucault : a very short introduction
Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. From aesthetics to the penal system; from madness and civilisation to avant-garde literature, he rejected old models of thinking and replaced them with versions that are still debated today. This book introduces and explores aspects of his life, work, and thought.
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Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy
Offers a holistic approach to Michel Foucault's
thought, introducing the idea of practical philosophy as an
original interpretative framework.
Michel Foucault's thought, Maddalena Cerrato writes, may be
understood as practical philosophy. In this perspective,
political analysis, philosophy of history, epistemology, and
ethics appear as necessarily cast together in a philosophical
project that aims to rethink freedom and emancipation from
domination of all kinds. The idea of practical philosophy
accounts for Foucault's specific approach to the object, as
well as to the task of philosophy, and it identifies the
perspective that led him to consider the question of
subjectivity as the guiding thread of his work. Overall,
Cerrato shows the deep consistency underlying Foucault's
reflection and the substantial coherence of his philosophical
itinerary, setting aside all the conventional interpretations
that pivot on the idea that his thought underwent a radical
\"turn\" from the political engagement of the question of power
toward an ethical retrieval of the question of
subjectivity.
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