Another paper in the theme issue of Theory, Culture and Society on ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ – https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/special-issue-foucault-before-the-college-de-france
Macherey, Pierre. “Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel?” Theory, Culture & Society, (June 2022).https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221084903.
Abstract
A ‘way out’ expresses a movement which looks completely different depending on whether one views it prospectively or retrospectively: in the first instance, it signifies ‘to emerge from’, which suggests a relationship of continuity; in the second it signifies ‘to breach a threshold’, a distancing, that is to say, a rupture. Which of these two meanings should we ascribe to the expression ‘Foucault’s way out of Hegel’ – that of a connection, which emerges when we look behind us, or that of a disjunction, which appears when we look ahead? That of a line of descent, which obliges us to contend with a legacy, or that of rejection, thus a refusal to accept it? This is the very question that we want to confront.
Keywords
dialectic, Foucault, Hegel, subjectification, thought
Progressive Geographies 