A fascinating graduate seminar on Foucault and medieval & early modern sources. Given the lecture courses about to come out in French, interest in Foucault’s work on Christianity is sure to spark a whole new set of debates and engagements. Let’s hope some results of this seminar get published.
Graduate Seminar:
Asceticism, Eroticism, and the Premodern Foucault: Revisiting Foucault’s History of Sexuality through Medieval and Early Modern Sources
The Newberry Centre for Renaissance Studies
Chicago, USA
Friday, January 11, 2013 to Friday, March 15, 2013
2- 5 pm
Room B-91
Led by Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and Anna Klosowska, Miami University (Ohio)
This seminar will focus on re-reading Foucault’s History of Sexuality (both the three published volumes as well as additional published materials intended for a fourth volume) in relation to hagiographic narratives from the Late Antique, Old English, and Middle English traditions (Eileen Joy) and to medieval and early modern literary texts on love in French (in translation) (Anna Klosowska). The central guiding concept is Foucault’s notion of an “improbable manner of being”—a notion that Foucault sketched, somewhat elliptically, in his late lectures and interviews in relation to his thinking on asceticism and techniques of the “care…
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