Emmanuelle Saada is a historian and sociologist whose work engages in law, citizenship, and colonial empire. Professor Saada is Associate Professor of French and History at Columbia University. She has taught at the Institute of French Studies at New York… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco The French edition was published in 2011 and the English translation was released in 2013, but there are already a number of book reviews, essays, taped seminar, and other bibliographic… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco Let me build on the fascinating introductory comments of Nancy Luxon and Jim Faubion to articulate some questions that may connect Foucault’s theoretical interventions in the Lectures on the Will to Know with the contemporary issues… Continue Reading
In preparation of the first seminar, we encourage you to visit the Foucault 13/13 blog. You will find articles introducing and discussing Lectures on the Will to Know (1970-1971), as well as reading suggestions. Please join in the conversation by… Continue Reading
By Agnese Codebò, Raphaëlle Burns, Ibai Atuxta, and Luca Provenzano The Live Streaming and Twitter (LST) room is a dynamic, interactive space, that will be run simultaneously alongside the Foucault 13/13 seminar room. Our mission is to extend participation beyond the… Continue Reading
By James D. Faubion In what appears as an appendix to his first year of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault summarizes the task he has undertaken as a “test of the utilizability” of the “Nietzschean model” of the… Continue Reading
By Nancy Luxon Already Bernard Harcourt’s wonderfully synoptic introduction of these Lectures on the Will to Know has recalled something of the events preoccupying Foucault and perhaps his audience in the post-68 moment. These preoccupations around law, economic distribution, and… Continue Reading
James D. Faubion is Varoslav Tsanoff Chair, Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is the editor ofRethinking the Subject: An Anthology of Contemporary European Social Thought (Boulder: Westview, 1995); the second… Continue Reading
Nancy Luxon joined the Political Science department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2007, after two years at the University of Chicago’s Society of Fellows. Her work in contemporary political and social theory concentrates on questions of power, authority,… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco During Foucault’s first trip to the USA in the Spring of 1971, John K. Simon interviewed him for the Partisan Review. At the outset of the interview, and after having rejected that he had invented a… Continue Reading