Bibliography

By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco

Michel Foucault, “Il faut défendre la société. Cours au Collège de France. 1975-1976, eds. Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana (Paris: Gallimard/Le Seuil, 1997)

_______________, “Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976, trans. David Macey, English series ed., Arnold I. Davidson (New York: Picador, 2003)

Book Reviews

Mark Cote, Book Review in Canadian Journal of Communication, Volume 29, No. 3, 2004

Stuart Elden: “The War of Races and the Constitution of the State: Foucault’s «Il faut défendre la société» and the Politics of Calculation” boundary 2 29.1 (2002) 125-151.

Thomas C. Holt. “Pouvoir, savoir et race. À propos du cours de Michel Foucault « Il faut défendre la société »” In :  Lectures de Michel Foucault. Volume 1 : À propos de « Il faut défendre la société » [en ligne]. Lyon : ENS Éditions, 2001.

Mark Kelly, “Racism, Nationalism and Biopolitics: Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended”, in Contretemps, No. 4, September 2004, pp. 58-70

John Marks, Book Review in Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 17, No. 5, 2000

Eduardo Mendieta, “To make live and to let die”–Foucault on Racism, paper presented at the meeting of the Foucault Circle, APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April 25th, 2002

Stuart J. Murray, “Myth as Critique? Review of Michel Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended”, in Qui Parle, Volume 13, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 203-221

Jacques De Ville, “Rethinking Power and Law: Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended”, in International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Volume 24, pp. 211-226

Important Related Works

Andrew W. Neal, “Cutting Off the King’s Head: Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended and the Problem of Sovereignty”, in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Volume 29, No. 4, August-October 2004, pp. 373-398

Ann Laura Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1995)

“La Volonté de savoir” de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1976-1979, Jean-François Bert dit., Caen, IMEC, 2013

Related/Of Interest

Dana Polan on Foucault TV