By John Rajchman Is it useless to revolt – to ‘rise up’? Foucault asked this question in 1979, responding to storm of criticism unleashed by his newspaper reports on the events unfolding in Iran. Is it useless now, when, faced with… Continue Reading
By Daniel Defert At first, I refused Bernard Harcourt’s proposal to speak again of Foucault’s papers on the Iranian Revolution. Since nearly forty years these papers have been read in “the shadow of the Islamic republic,” then of “Islamism as… Continue Reading
By Judith Revel On connaît l’intensité du débat qui s’est développé à partir des interventions de Michel Foucault sur l’Iran, sa véhémence aussi. La dureté des critiques qui ont été formulées il y a presque quarante ans ressurgit encore aujourd’hui… Continue Reading
By Daniele Lorenzini In this paper, I raise the question of whether Michel Foucault’s ‘toolbox’ can be useful in order to think of collective forms of resistance or not. I focus on some of the historical examples Foucault himself commented… Continue Reading
Daniele Lorenzini is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and the University of Saint-Louis, Brussels. Daniele holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Paris-Est and Sapienza University of Rome. Moral and political philosophy,… Continue Reading
Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He writes and teaches on a variety of subjects that ultimately converge on questions of the poetics and politics of modernity and democracy. He is the author of Dream… Continue Reading
Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau & Hannah Arendt Nov. 16, 2017, 4:15-6:15pm 1) Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience French version – English version 2) Hannah Arendt, Civil Disobedience French version P1 & P2 – English version
The Concept of Revolution Karl Marx & Reinhart Koselleck Oct. 5, 2017, 4:30-6:30pm 1) Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte French version – English version 2) Reinhart Koselleck, Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution French… Continue Reading