Foucault

Contents

I, Michel Foucault…

Foucault the Author?

A Transdiscursive Man

Foucault’s Project

Foucault Fiction

Camp Catholics and Choirboys

Paris – The Top 100

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

Hyppolite and Hegel

The Return of Hegel

Foucault the Student

Philosophical Currents…

… and Phenomenology

Science and its Epistemology

Truth as Activity

Foucault’s Project Takes Shape

Foucault’s History of Experience

Political Currents

Foucault Blows It

Towards Psychology?

Experimental Dreams?

Psychology meets Heidegger

Illness and Marx

Love on the Rocks

Uppsala Library – The Birth of Madness

Foucault’s Indiscretions

1960–61 – Rapid Change

From Philosophy to Madness

Madness and Civilization (1964)

Folly and Unreason

The Classical Era

1. Medieval Madness and Death

2. Renaissance Folly

Folly’s Truth

3. The Classical Age of Confinement

Bourgeois Morals

Treated Like Animals

Reform, Asylums and Capture of Minds

4.1900 and Freud the Divine

Critical Reception

Anti-Psychiatry

Foucault vs. Derrida, 1963

Clermont-Ferrand – Conflict Begins

Language and Literature

Medicine and Methodology

Medical Knowledge Mutates

Knowledge as Classification

Anatomy – The Technique of the Corpse

Barthes Gets Jealous

Nietzsche to the Rescue

No More Knowledge

Words and Things

Key Term No. 1: Archaeology

Taxonomy or Classification

The Renaissance Episteme

The Classical Episteme

Classical Signs

Representation Without a Subject

1800s: From Order to History

Man as Modern Object

Man and His Double

How Rational are Human Sciences?

The End of Man – Is the Subject Finished?

This is Not a Pipe

Magritte to Warhol

Structural Space

The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)

Rules of Discourse

Discourse Creates its Object

Foucault and Althusser…

Against Structuralism

Reception of Archaeology

1968 – Paris in Turmoil

Vincennes – on Show

January 1969: Vincennes Aggro

Hyppolite Expires

The Will to Truth

New Term: Genealogy

Genealogy Against History

What is an Author?

Foucault Against Chomsky

Political Engagement

Political Allegiances

The Miner’s Murdered Daughter

Immigrants Killed

I, Pierre Rivière

Discipline and Punish

From Torture as Spectacle

Saving the Soul

Bourgeois Methods

Rules and Regulations

Bentham’s Panopticon

Why do Prisons Fail?

Power/Knowledge

Compliments and Criticisms

Spanish Bio-Fascism

1976, Sexuality as History

The Confessional Animal

The Repressive Hypothesis

Administering Sex

The Perverse Implantation

Homospecies and the Etymology of Sex

20th Century: Reveal All!

The Baudrillard Incident

Foucault’s America

Sado-Masochism: Beyond Desire

Child Abuse – or Consent?

The Iran Mistake

Against Socialism

Back to the Enlightenment

Towards Modernity

Against Foucault

Pleasure and its Uses

Some Greek Buzzwords

Ethical Concerns

The Love of Boys

The Relation to Truth

The Return of the Subject?

The Care of the Self

The Cultivation of the Self

Oneirocriticism: Looking at Dreams

Getting Married

The Political Self

The Body and the Self

The Work of the Soul

Imperfect Boys – or a Nice Wife?

Don’t be Scared

The Death of an Author

Unfinished Work

Foucault Dissected

Naive Politics?

Foucault In Memoriam

Return of the Dead

Selected Further Reading

Acknowledgements

About the Authors