Author: Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt  The Cynic militant life: this is a model of struggle, of conflict, of battle that is very similar to the one Foucault had endorsed in the early 1970s when he embraced the model of civil war. The… Continue Reading →

By Bernard E. Harcourt The interventions of Frederic Gros, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak—all three extremely insightful and provocative—raise a host of questions. I would like to extract three in particular. Before doing so, though, I should note that it… Continue Reading →

By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Let me begin with Edward Said’s On Late Style: the relationship between bodily condition and aesthetic style seems at first to be a subject so irrelevant and perhaps even trivial by comparison with the momentousness of life,… Continue Reading →

This table will accompany Frédéric Gros’ presentation at Foucault 13/13 on « Obedient Truths and Disobedient Truths in Foucault’s Last Lectures at The Collège De France » Obedient Truths Types of obedience   Disobedient Truths Types of disobedience Normative Truth… Continue Reading →

By Frédéric Gros Before turning to Foucault’s later work on the Greeks, I would like to return to his first major project during the sixties and seventies on the archeology and genealogy of social sciences. Foucault’s critique of the social… Continue Reading →

By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak I was Thomas Flynn’s friend and colleague when he was attending Foucault’s seminars. Is Flynn right in saying that “whereas his [Foucault’s]’s earlier treatment had focused on parrhesia as a political virtue, you told the prince the… Continue Reading →

By Frédéric Gros The problem of truth is both central and complicated in Michel Foucault’s work and particularly present in Foucault’s final lectures at the Collège de France, The Courage of Truth (1984), in his analysis of Socrates’ death and the… Continue Reading →