Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Incomplete Editions and References

In Matthew Stewart’s very good account of Leibniz and Spinoza, The Courtier and the Heretic (Yale UP, 2005), there is a note in the bibliography that The standard, reference edition of Leibniz’s collected works is that of the Berlin Akademie. … Continue reading

Posted in Eugen Fink, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gottfried Leibniz, Henri Lefebvre, Immanuel Kant, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault | 4 Comments

Gratton on sovereignty

Peter Gratton replies to two of my recent posts here and here. Both replies have great titles. The first is a discussion of the canon. Peter writes  As someone who wrote an entire chapter on Boulainviller, I’m happy to change … Continue reading

Posted in Boundaries, Gottfried Leibniz, Jean Bodin, John Locke, Michel Foucault, Peter Gratton, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Walter Ralegh | 3 Comments

Reading texts, the canon, and historical access

Having been away for the weekend I feel like the blog debate that has been going on about Derrida and realism has largely passed me by. That’s fine, in a sense, because it’s not something I’m especially concerned with. (You … Continue reading

Posted in Alain Badiou, Gottfried Leibniz, Jacques Derrida, Jane Bennett, Jean Bodin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Michel Foucault, Robert Filmer, The Birth of Territory, Thomas Hobbes | 2 Comments

Hiking and Reading

The weekend was spent hiking with Susan and friends in the Peak District, around the village of Edale. On Saturday, we went up to the plateau of Kinder Scout (and got absolutely drenched); and on Sunday up Mam Tor and … Continue reading

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Foucault and the Family – Cambridge conference

This looks interesting – unfortunately can’t make it but may be of interest to some. Details below and poster here. Foucault, the Family and Politics Friday, 12 November 2010, Kings College, Keynes Hall, Cambridge Attendance free – but please register. … Continue reading

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Foucault

Clare O’Farrell has a quotation from Foucault’s recently translated 1982-83 lecture course, The Government of Self and Others, up on her Foucault site, and a brief discussion here. It seems to me that the philosophical choice confronting us today is the … Continue reading

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New Foucault journal

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Clare O’Farrell on Foucault and philosophy

Interesting post from Clare on the state of philosophy as an academic discipline, both intellectually and institutionally – http://inputs.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/foucault-and-philosophy/

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OOO and GIS – request

Jeremy Crampton – my co-editor on the Foucault and Geography book and a couple of other projects – has a request for OOO people on his Foucault blog… I wouldn’t mind getting a perspective on computer/GI Science “ontologies” from some … Continue reading

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New Foucault book in English

Jeremy has the news here that Government of Self and Others (vol I) is now translated. I read it in French when it came out a couple of years ago, and remember it being to my mind the least interesting of the … Continue reading

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