By Daniele Lorenzini Pour rebondir sur le problème très délicat soulevé dans l’épilogue 9/13 de l’identification opérée par Foucault, dans Du gouvernement des vivants, entre le « sujet (occidental) moderne » et la « subjectivité chrétienne », il me semble important d’insister sur deux points.… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The Foucault 9/13 seminar On the Government of the Living with Jean Cohen, Daniele Lorenzini, and Achille Mbembe stimulated a number of interesting conversations revolving around five principal themes concerning (1) continuities and new objects, (2) ideology critique and its relation to… Continue Reading
By Allen Feldman In his opening remarks to On the Government of the Living session on February 11th, Bernard Harcourt cites Foucault’s’ discussion of self-examination as mediated by Cassian’s discourse on the practices of the moneychanger. As Foucault elsewhere writes of… Continue Reading
By Alex Campolo In addition to the varied and fascinating historical content analyzed by Michel Foucault in his Collège de France lectures—peasant rebellions, demonic possession, and of course Gary Becker—another way to follow the movement of his thought over the course… Continue Reading
By John Owen Havard In the fourth lecture of On the Government of the Living (GL), Foucault makes some remarkable—not to mention playful—statements about his own critical practice, perhaps some of the most revealing found in his entire oeuvre. I will… Continue Reading
In On the Government of the Living Michel Foucault explicitly links and articulates in an original way two of the main philosophical and political projects he never ceased to pursue in his works of the 1970s and the 1980s: on… Continue Reading
By Jean L. Cohen First I’d like to thank the organizers of this seminar for giving me the chance to discuss Michel Foucault’s 1979-1980 Lectures at the College de France titled in English, On The Government of the Living. Before… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco It is at the beginning of his lectures On the Government of the Living that Michel Foucault explains to his students—to those heterogeneous, even heteroclite set of students he had at the Collège de France—that he… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Foucault’s 1979-1980 lectures On the Government of the Living represent a pivotal double movement in Foucault’s thought, a double movement that has the effect of elaborating the third key dimension to Foucault’s work: namely, the dimension… Continue Reading