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Foucault, The End of a Decade

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2018

Daniel Zamora Vargas
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Contemporary European History , Volume 28 , Special Issue 2: Making Modern Social Science: The Global Imagination in East Central and Southeastern Europe after Versailles , May 2019 , pp. 262 - 272
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1 Foucault, Michel, Les aveux de la chair (Paris: Gallimard, 2018)Google Scholar.

2 Foucault, Michel, Théories et institutions pénales, Cours au Collège de France. 1971–1972 (Paris: éditions de l’EHESS, 2015)Google Scholar.

3 With the notable exception of the forthcoming publication of Le discours philosophique that assembles his lectures at Tunis between 1966 and 1967. Beyond that, new important material might emerge from the 117 boxes filled with 37,000 pages of archives recently sold by Daniel Defert to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France which have not been entirely made public yet.

4 Apart from his lectures at the Collège de France, important publications include especially the 1980 Darmouth College lectures: Foucault, Michel, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi (Paris: Vrin, 2013)Google Scholar; the 1981 Louvain lectures: Foucault, Michel, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. The Function of Avowal in Justice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; the 1982 Toronto lectures: Foucault, Michel, Dire vrai sur soi-même (Paris: Vrin, 2017)Google Scholar; the 1983 Berkeley lectures recently published by Vrin: Foucault, Michel, Discours et Vérité (Paris: Vrin, 2016)Google Scholar.

5 See especially Behrent, Michael C., ‘Foucault and France’s Liberal Moment’, in Stephen W. Sawyer and Iain Stewart, eds., In Search of the Liberal Moment. Democracy, Anti-totalitarianism, and Intellectual Politics in France since 1950 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 155–156 Google Scholar; Chabal, Emile, France since the 1970s: History, Politics and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)Google Scholar; idem, A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)Google Scholar.

6 See especially Behrent, Michael C., ‘Penser le XXe siècle avec Michel Foucault’, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 4, 60-4/4 bis (2013), 7–28 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 See, for example, recently, ‘Michel Foucault in Death Valley: A Boom interview with Simeon Wade’, Boom California, 10 Sept. 2017, available at https://boomcalifornia.com/2017/09/10/michel-foucault-in-death-valley-a-boom-interview-with-simeon-wade/ (last visited 6 Sept. 2018).

8 Eugène Wolters, ‘Foucault’s Last Decade: An interview with Stuart Elden’, Critical Theory, 30 July 2016, available at http://www.critical-theory.com/foucaults-last-decade-an-interview-with-stuart-elden/ (last visited 6 Sept. 2018).

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12 See Chevalier, Philippe, Michel Foucault et le christianisme (Paris: ENS éditions, 2011), 62 Google Scholar.

13 Frédéric Gros, ‘Avertissement’, in Foucault, Les aveux de la chair, iii. On the precise chronology of Foucault’s work see Defert, Daniel, ‘Chronologie’, in Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits I. 1954–1975 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001), 13–90 Google Scholar.

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17 Gros, ‘Avertissement’, v.

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27 Lorenzini et al. Michel Foucault; Cremonesi, Laura, Irrera, Orazio, Lorenzini, Daniele and Tazzioli, Martina, eds., Foucault and the Making of Subjects, (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)Google Scholar; Revel, Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty; Lorenzini, Daniele, Ethique et politique de soi. Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les techniques de l’ordinaire (Paris: Vrin, 2015)Google Scholar.

28 Arnold I. Davidson, ‘La fin de l’herméneutique de soi’, in Lorenzini et al. Michel Foucault, 67.

29 Pradeau, Jean-François, ‘Le sujet ancien d’une éthique moderne. A propos des exercices spirituels anciens dans l’Histoire de la sexualité’, in Frédéric Gros, ed., Foucault: Le courage de la vérité (Paris: PUF, 2002), 147 Google Scholar.

30 For a detailed view of Foucault’s relation to the French socialism, see Audier, Serge, Penser le ‘néolibéralisme’: le moment néolibéral, Foucault et la crise du socialisme (Paris: Le bord de l’eau, 2015)Google Scholar.

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32 Foucault, ‘The Subject and Power’.

33 Ibid.

34 Foucault, Qu’est ce que la critique?, 120.

35 Foucault, Michel, ‘Une mobilisation culturelle’, Le Nouvel Observateur, 670, 12–18 Sept. (1977), 49. Available online at http://1libertaire.free.fr/MFoucault344.html (last visited 6 Sept. 2018)Google Scholar.

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37 Ibid.

38 Daniele Lorenzini, ‘Foucault, Regimes of Truth and the Making of the Subject’, in Cremonesi et al., Foucault and the making of subject, 67.

39 Arnold I. Davidson, ‘La fin de l’Herméneutique de soi’, 68.

40 Cremonesi et al. Foucault and the making of subjects, 8.

41 Ibid., 73.

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45 Ibid., 39.

46 Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi, 37n.

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48 See especially Scott Christofferson, Michael, French Intellectuals Against the Left. The antitotalitarian moment of the 1970s (New York: Berghahn, 2004)Google Scholar.

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53 Ibid., 9.

54 Ibid., 51.

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56 Cremonesi et al., Foucault and the making of subjects, 7

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59 Ibid., 58.

60 Ibid., 92.

61 Ibid., 96.

62 Ibid., 91.

63 Stuart Elden, Foucault’s Last Decade, 103.

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68 Ibid.

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