Souleymane Bachir Diagne received his academic training in France. An alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure, he holds an agrégation in Philosophy (1978) and he took his Doctorat d’État in philosophy at the Sorbonne (1988) where he also took his… Continue Reading
By Lydia H. Liu I think we may have to suspect that we find it impossible today to constitute an ethic of the self, even though it may be an urgent, fundamental, and politically indispensable task, if it is true… Continue Reading
Please watch the livestream of Foucault 11/13 on Thursday, March 10, 2016, at 6:15pm EST below or here or here. The seminar will be held from 6:15pm to 8:45pm in the Common Room of the Heyman Center. There will be an overflow room… Continue Reading
By Emmanuelle Saada In Abnormal, Foucault studies “the emergence of the power of normalization, the way in which it has been formed, the way in which it has established itself without ever resting on a single institution but by establishing… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In light of the rich discussion at Foucault 3/13, I began researching the role of civil war—and of the war model in social thought more generally—and turned to Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl’s book War in Social Thought:… Continue Reading
In preparation of the seminar, we encourage you to visit the Foucault 13/13 blog. You will find articles introducing and discussing Psychiatric Power (1973-1974), as well as reading suggestions. Please join in the conversation by commenting on the articles. This fourth session will take… Continue Reading
On October 9, 2015 Christopher Berk presented “Democratic Exclusions: Prisoners, patients, and children in democratic politics” at the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Children, prisoners, and the cognitively disabled present a thorny boundary problem for theorists of aggregative and deliberative… Continue Reading
Alondra Nelson is professor of sociology and gender studies and Dean of Social Science at Columbia University, where she has served as director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is Chair-elect of the American Sociological… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt I am simply trying to see, to reveal, and to transform into legible discourse, legible to all, that which may be unbearable for the most disadvantaged classes in our current system of justice. — Michel Foucault,… Continue Reading