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Showing 1 to 20 of 639 for “"foucault"”.
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Normalizing Foucault
… and political stance from the theory of Michel Foucault. In an attempt to answer the question, "If power cannot be separated from knowledge, then how can one use knowledge to critique forms of power?" I analyze and judge the arguments against Foucault's perspective by Nancy Fraser and Jurgen …
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Empirische Diskursanalyse nach Foucault
… auf ihren theoretischen Ausgangspunkt, nämlich Foucaults Diskurstheorie in der 1969 erschienenen 'Archäologie des Wissens', zurück. Dazu problematisiert der Autor zunächst die bei Foucault zentralen Termini und entfaltet daraufhin die neueren Ansätze über eine analysespezifische Leitfrage, die …
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Le cuir de Michel Foucault
… j'analyse le point de vue sur le S/M que Michel Foucault a pu formuler dans ses interviews. Définissant le pouvoir comme un processus de théâtralisation qui vise soit l'être social soit le corps, Michel Foucault propose de penser le S/M dans le cadre d'une esthétisation et d'une création de soi. …
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Critique and neoliberalism in Michel Foucault
<p>This dissertation argues that Foucault's concept of critique is a practice that principally consists of "desubjection" and the history of the present. Critique thinks the identity of its historical present on the basis of what escapes this identity. It participates in these escapes by exploring …
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Foucault, Affect, History: On the Art of Feeling
While the work of Michel Foucault has not generally been thought to engage in questions of affect, I argue that his work entails a meaningful engagement with such questions but in a way that challenges how we tend to think about affect. Drawing from Foucault’s oeuvre, I enter a series of dialogues …
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L'intelligibilité de la pratique. Entre Foucault et Sartre
… understake a confrontation between the ideas of Foucault and Sartre. Without playing down their differences of opinion, which have often been emphasized by the humanistic dispute, we shall endeavor to bring forward a topic thse twi authors share : the proposal of an attempt at the intelligibility …
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Adorno, Foucault, and the history of the present
… resources that Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault provide us with. Accordingly, whereas the few attempts that have been made been to compare their works remain inadequate, partial, or simply out-dated, my thesis offers a detailed and comprehensive appraisal of both the explanatory and …
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Husserl and Foucault on the Subject: The Companions
… through a dialogue with the work of Michel Foucault. Specifically, I argue that Foucault's critical project, in which we isolate the contingent limits of thought so as to pass beyond them, and thus think new ways of being, can be filled out by the work of Edmund Husserl and differentiated …
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A liberdade de Foucault no interior de suas fronteiras
In the genealogy of the subject, Foucault analyses the constitution of modern subjectivity and how the practices of the self operate in Greco-Roman antiquity, in the field of ethics. In the relationship between power and freedom, Foucault analyses how the subjected subject to power exercises its …
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Foucault's asceticism and the subject of AIDS
Although Foucault elaborated upon the socio-political possibilities he associated with a “homosexual ascesis” in several other interviews and writings, his death from AIDS in 1984 kept him from continuing to speak about this his final project. My dissertation, Foucault’s Asceticism and the Subject …
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Foucault, Kant, Deleuze, and the problem of political agency
… I develop a detailed reconstruction of Michel Foucault's political philosophy, placed in relation to the work of Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze. I argue that the key to Foucault's political thought is contained in two crucial but neglected concepts, <em>verticality …
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The Unbreakable Circle: An Intellectual History of Michel Foucault
… ordered internal intellectual history of Michel Foucault. The objective of this analysis is to determine whether or not Foucault provides a viable critical social theory of bourgeois society. In order to examine this topic, I trace the development of Foucault’s thought during his early, …
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Michel Foucault and the Politics of Coalition, 1968-1980
This dissertation reinterprets Michel Foucault as a thinker of political coalition. Because he valued difference and rejected totalising schemes, Foucault’s post-structuralist political thought is usually associated with particularity and social fragmentation. I show that this is a very partial …
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Between work : Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser and Jacques Martin
… work and friendships of Jacques Martin, Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser there are moments, images and texts which tempt us to say, ah... 'that's he,' and furthermore, 'that is his work.' Yet, the textual collaborations of Foucault, Martin and Althusser can be seen as process of …
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