Foucault and the Making of Subjects
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Laura Cremonesi specialises in 20th Century French Philosophy and has published articles and book chapters on Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot. She has published a book on Foucault’s interpretation of the ancient world, Michel Foucault e il mondo antico. Spunti per una critica dell’attualità (ETS, 2008), and translated from French into Italian the book by Pierre Hadot, Études de philosophie ancienne (Les Belles Lettres, 2010): Studi di filosofia antica (ETS, 2015). Orazio Irrera is Associate Researcher at the Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal materiali foucaultiani and the co-director of the permanent workshop “Race and Colonialism: On the Political Epistemologies of Decolonisation” at the Collège international de Philosophie. He is the co-editor of Foucault e le genalogie del dir-vero (Cronopio, 2014) and La pensée politique de Foucault (Kimé, 2016). Daniele Lorenzini is Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. He is the author most recently of Éthique et politique de soi: Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les techniques de l’ordinaire (Vrin, 2015) and the co-editor of Michel Foucault’s lectures About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self (The University of Chicago Press, 2015), Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivi de La culture de soi (Vrin, 2015), and Discours et vérité (Vrin, 2016). He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal materiali foucaultiani. Martina Tazzioli is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Aix-Marseille and Research Assistant at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), co-author of Tunisia as a Revolutionized Space of Migration (Palgrave Pivot, 2016), and co-editor of Foucault and the History of Our Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). She is also a member of the editorial board of the journal materiali foucaultiani.This fascinating set of essays brings together some of the best known French and Anglophone commentators on Foucault’s work today. The result is a splendid collection of engagements with Foucault’s late reconceptualization of subjectivity that ranges widely over the late lecture courses at the Collège de France, and beyond. Foucault and the Making of Subjects takes a subject we thought we knew well – Foucault and the subject – and makes it new (and urgent, again) for us. Endlessly interesting and provocative.
- Ben Golder, University of New South Wales,
This is an excellent collection including work by established scholars as well as some of the leading members of a new generation of continental Foucault scholarship. The focus on Foucault's concern with the making of subjects' sustains its coherence across a diverse range of contributions. Critically probing and extending Foucault's work across topics of autonomy, truthfulness, sexual avowal, ideology, desire, and collective subjectivities, it demonstrates the salience of, and resources offered by, Foucault's work for social and political theory.
- David Owen, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Southampton,
In this inspiring collection, which features a very significant and newly available interview with Foucault, the authors mount an engaging and detailed case for Foucault's practical utility in conceptualising ethical and political action at both the individual and social levels. Carefully refuting a number of commonly held misconceptions about Foucault's work on this score, this book is essential reading.
- Clare O'Farrell, Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology,
In the fast growing field of research on Foucault, this volume stands out. It provides careful and expert appraisals of recently published textual sources, as well as offering strikingly novel insights on the important issue of collective political resistance.
- Johanna Oksala, Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, USA,