I'd like to add my two cents to the recent postings on Foucault and
therapeutic ethics.
In my treatment of this issue, sexuality is not specifically the topic.
Instead I have focused more broadly on the therapeutic governing of the
self as a problem for consumer culture, which brings up self-help and so
on.
One paper I recommend above all (for those doing a more american history
approach) is jackson lears essay on therapeutic consumerism (low down on
this post). It's fantastic, as is his "no place of grace". A guy who is
probably completely indifferent (even hostile) to Foucault, but quite
close to foucauldian concerns.
Much of this is in chaos, owing to various cut and past formatting
problems, but it may prove as usefult to others as recent posts have
proven to me.
cheers.
sam binkley
FOUCAULT AND SELF: SECONDARY STUFF
Earle, William, "Foucault's The Use of Pleasure as Philosophy."
Metaphilosophy 20 (April 1989), 169-177.
Fillion, Real Robert, "Foucault contra Taylor: Whose Sources? Whose Self?"
Dialogue 34 (Fall 1995), 663-674.
Flynn, Thomas R., "Truth and Subjectivation in the Later Foucault."
Journal of Philosophy 82 (October 1985), 531-540+.
Flynn, Thomas R., "Foucault as Parrhesiast: His Last Course at College de
France." Philosophy and Social Criticism 12 (Summer 1987)
Foucault, Michel, "Michel Foucault on Attica: An Interview." Telos 19
(1974), 154-161
2. NewSchool Periodicals
Foucault, Michel. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel
Foucault. Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Partick H. Hutton, Eds.
Amherst, MA: 1988.
Gardiner, Michael, "Foucault, Ethics and Dialogue." History of the Human
Sciences 9 (August 1996), 27-46.
Gearhart, Suzanne, "Foucault's Response to Freud: Sado-masochism and the
Aestheticization of Power." Style 29 (Fall 1995), 389-403.
Humphries, Michael L., "Michel Foucault on Writing and the Self in the
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Confessions of St. Augustine" Arethusa
30:1 (Winter 1997), 125-
Jay, Martin. The Limits of Limit-experience: Bataille and Foucault.
Berkeley, CA: Center for German and European Studies, University of
California, 1993. Working Paper.
La Fountain, Marc, "Foucault and Dr. Ruth." Critical Studies in Mass
Communication 6:2 (June 1989),123-137.
Larmour, David H. J., Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter Eds.
Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. Princeton
University Press, forthcoming [publication date: 1 December 1997].
Lasch, Christopher, "Life in the Therapeutic State." New York Review of
Books (12 June 1980), 24-32.
Looser, Devoney, "Feminist Theory and Foucault: A Bibliographic Essay."
Style 26 (Winter 1992),
593-603.
Lydon, Mary, "Foucault and Feminism: A Romance of Many Dimensions." In
Skirting the Issue, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. pp. 216-228.
Miller, James, "Policing Discourse: A Response to David Halperin."
Salmagundi 97 (Winter 1992), 94-99.
Morris, Phyllis S., "Self-Creating Selves: Sartre and Foucault." American
Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (Autumn 1996, 537-549.
Nehamas, Alexander, "Subject and Abject." New Republic 208 (15 February
1993), 27-36.
O'Hara, Daniel T., "Michel Foucault and the Fate of Friendship." Boundary
2 18 (Spring 1991), 83-103.
Rajchman, John, "Ethics after Foucault." Social Text 13 (1986),
Rajchman, John. Truth and Eros: Foucault, Lacan and the Question of
Ethics. London and New York: Routledge, 1991
Sawicki, Jana. Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power and the Body. London
and New York: Routledge, 1991. Thinking Gender series.
Surkis, Judith, "No Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye:
Transgression and Masculinity in Bataille and Foucault." Diacritics 26
(Summer 1996), 18-30.
Veyne, Paul. "The Final Foucault and His Ethics." Translated by Catherine
Porter and Arnold I. Davidson. Critical Inquiry 20 (Autumn 1993), 1-9.
Wain, Kenneth, "Foucault, Education, the Self and Modernity." Journal of
Philosophy of Education 30:3
(1996), 345-
White, Edmund, "The Politics of Gender: Michel Foucault." In The Burning
Library: Essays. Knopf, 1994. pp. 89-94.
FOUCAULT AND CONSUMERISM
(sorry 'bout the mess)
> Bauman, Z. (1988) Freedom, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.--------
> consumer,
> freedom, Foucault, markets, subject
>
> Bennet, T. (1988) 'The exhibitionary complex', New Formations 4:
> 73-103.--------
> shopping, consumer, liberalism, Foucault, markets
>
> Cline Cohen, P. (1982) A Calculating People: the Spread of Numeracy in
> Early America,
> Chicago: University of Chicago Press.-------- consumer, Foucault,
> rationality, markets
>
> Dews, P. (1989) 'The return of the subject in late Foucault', Radical
> Philosophy 51:
> 37-41.-------- foucault, subject, needs, consumer
>
> Foucault, M. (1983) 'On the genealogy of ethics', in H. L. Dreyfus and
> P. Rabinow (eds.), On the
> genealogy of ethics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.--------
> Foucault, consumer,
> governmentality,
>
> Foucault, M. (1984) 'Polemics, politics and problematizations: an
> interview', in P. Rabinow
> (ed.), Polemics, politics and problematizations: an interview, New York:
> Pantheon.--------
> leisure, hobbies, governmentality, Foucault,
>
> Foucault, M. (1988) 'Technologies of the Self', in L. Martin, H. Gutman
> and P. Hutton (eds.),
> Technologies of the Self, Amherst: University of Mass Press.--------
> Foucault, self,
> governmentality, liberalism, consumer
>
> Foucault, M. (1988) 'The political technology of individuals', in L.
> Martin, H. Gutman and P.
> Hutton (eds.), The political technology of individuals, Amherst:
> University of Mass
> Press.-------- Foucault, self, governmentality, liberalism, consumer
>
> Gordon, C. (1987) 'The soul of the citizen: Max Weber and Michel
> Foucault on rationality and
> government', in S. Whimster and S. Lash (eds.), The soul of the citizen:
> Max Weber and Michel
> Foucault on rationality and government, London: Allen and Unwin:
> 293-316.-------- Weber,
> consumer, Foucault, liberalism
>
> Foucault, M. and R. Sennett (1981) 'Sexuality and solitude', in ,
> Sexuality and solitude,
> London: Junction Books.-------- body, sexuality, consumer
> Miller, P. and N. Rose (1990) 'Governing economic life', Economy and
> Society 19(1):
> 1-31.-------- Foucault, liberalism, consumer
>
> Rose, N. (1992) 'Governing the enterprising self', in P. Heelas and P.
> Morris (eds.), Governing
> the enterprising self, London: Routledge.-------- consumer, markets,
> Foucault
>
> Rose, N. (1991) Governing the Soul: the shaping of the private self,
> London:
> Rouledge.-------- Foucault, marketing
>
> Gutman, H. (1988) 'Rousseau's Confessions: a technology of the self', in
> L. Martin, H. Gutman
> and P. Hutton (eds.), Rousseau's Confessions: a technology of the self,
> Amherst: University
> of Mass Press.-------- Foucault, self, governmentality, liberalism,
> consumer, Rousseau,
> eighteenth century
> Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the
> Late Modern Age,
> Cambridge: Polity.-------- consumer, self, subject, Foucault
>
> Gordon, C. (1986) 'Question, ethos, event: Foucault on Kant and
> enlightenment', Economy and
> Society 15(1).-------- foucault, liberalism, consumer, self,
> governmentality, needs
>
> Hacking, I. (1986) 'Making up People', in T. C. e. a. Heller (ed.),
> Making up People, Stanford, CA:
> Stanford University Press.-------- marketing, Foucault,
A FEW MORE
Lears, T. J. Jackson No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the
Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (Chicago, University of
Chicago Press, 1981)
Rieff, Philip The Triumph of the Therapeutic; Uses of Faith After Freud
(New York: Harper & Row 1966)
Lears, T. J. Jackson, "From Salvation to Self-Realization: Advertising and
the Therapeutic Roots of the Consumer Culture, 1880-1930", in The Culture
of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1990, ed.
Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears. (New York: Pantheon Books,
1983)
Lears, T. J. Jackson, "The Ad Man and the Grand Inquisitor: Intimacy,
Publicity, and the Managed Self in America, 1880-1940," in George Levine,
ed., Constructions of the Self (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 1992)
McClay, Wilfred M. The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America
(Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994)
--
____________________________
Sam Binkley
Department of Sociology, New School University
65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Address: PO Box 20202, New York, NY 10009
phone: (212) 420 9425 web: http://www.erols.com/sbinkley/
therapeutic ethics.
In my treatment of this issue, sexuality is not specifically the topic.
Instead I have focused more broadly on the therapeutic governing of the
self as a problem for consumer culture, which brings up self-help and so
on.
One paper I recommend above all (for those doing a more american history
approach) is jackson lears essay on therapeutic consumerism (low down on
this post). It's fantastic, as is his "no place of grace". A guy who is
probably completely indifferent (even hostile) to Foucault, but quite
close to foucauldian concerns.
Much of this is in chaos, owing to various cut and past formatting
problems, but it may prove as usefult to others as recent posts have
proven to me.
cheers.
sam binkley
FOUCAULT AND SELF: SECONDARY STUFF
Earle, William, "Foucault's The Use of Pleasure as Philosophy."
Metaphilosophy 20 (April 1989), 169-177.
Fillion, Real Robert, "Foucault contra Taylor: Whose Sources? Whose Self?"
Dialogue 34 (Fall 1995), 663-674.
Flynn, Thomas R., "Truth and Subjectivation in the Later Foucault."
Journal of Philosophy 82 (October 1985), 531-540+.
Flynn, Thomas R., "Foucault as Parrhesiast: His Last Course at College de
France." Philosophy and Social Criticism 12 (Summer 1987)
Foucault, Michel, "Michel Foucault on Attica: An Interview." Telos 19
(1974), 154-161
2. NewSchool Periodicals
Foucault, Michel. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel
Foucault. Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Partick H. Hutton, Eds.
Amherst, MA: 1988.
Gardiner, Michael, "Foucault, Ethics and Dialogue." History of the Human
Sciences 9 (August 1996), 27-46.
Gearhart, Suzanne, "Foucault's Response to Freud: Sado-masochism and the
Aestheticization of Power." Style 29 (Fall 1995), 389-403.
Humphries, Michael L., "Michel Foucault on Writing and the Self in the
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Confessions of St. Augustine" Arethusa
30:1 (Winter 1997), 125-
Jay, Martin. The Limits of Limit-experience: Bataille and Foucault.
Berkeley, CA: Center for German and European Studies, University of
California, 1993. Working Paper.
La Fountain, Marc, "Foucault and Dr. Ruth." Critical Studies in Mass
Communication 6:2 (June 1989),123-137.
Larmour, David H. J., Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter Eds.
Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. Princeton
University Press, forthcoming [publication date: 1 December 1997].
Lasch, Christopher, "Life in the Therapeutic State." New York Review of
Books (12 June 1980), 24-32.
Looser, Devoney, "Feminist Theory and Foucault: A Bibliographic Essay."
Style 26 (Winter 1992),
593-603.
Lydon, Mary, "Foucault and Feminism: A Romance of Many Dimensions." In
Skirting the Issue, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. pp. 216-228.
Miller, James, "Policing Discourse: A Response to David Halperin."
Salmagundi 97 (Winter 1992), 94-99.
Morris, Phyllis S., "Self-Creating Selves: Sartre and Foucault." American
Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (Autumn 1996, 537-549.
Nehamas, Alexander, "Subject and Abject." New Republic 208 (15 February
1993), 27-36.
O'Hara, Daniel T., "Michel Foucault and the Fate of Friendship." Boundary
2 18 (Spring 1991), 83-103.
Rajchman, John, "Ethics after Foucault." Social Text 13 (1986),
Rajchman, John. Truth and Eros: Foucault, Lacan and the Question of
Ethics. London and New York: Routledge, 1991
Sawicki, Jana. Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power and the Body. London
and New York: Routledge, 1991. Thinking Gender series.
Surkis, Judith, "No Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye:
Transgression and Masculinity in Bataille and Foucault." Diacritics 26
(Summer 1996), 18-30.
Veyne, Paul. "The Final Foucault and His Ethics." Translated by Catherine
Porter and Arnold I. Davidson. Critical Inquiry 20 (Autumn 1993), 1-9.
Wain, Kenneth, "Foucault, Education, the Self and Modernity." Journal of
Philosophy of Education 30:3
(1996), 345-
White, Edmund, "The Politics of Gender: Michel Foucault." In The Burning
Library: Essays. Knopf, 1994. pp. 89-94.
FOUCAULT AND CONSUMERISM
(sorry 'bout the mess)
> Bauman, Z. (1988) Freedom, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.--------
> consumer,
> freedom, Foucault, markets, subject
>
> Bennet, T. (1988) 'The exhibitionary complex', New Formations 4:
> 73-103.--------
> shopping, consumer, liberalism, Foucault, markets
>
> Cline Cohen, P. (1982) A Calculating People: the Spread of Numeracy in
> Early America,
> Chicago: University of Chicago Press.-------- consumer, Foucault,
> rationality, markets
>
> Dews, P. (1989) 'The return of the subject in late Foucault', Radical
> Philosophy 51:
> 37-41.-------- foucault, subject, needs, consumer
>
> Foucault, M. (1983) 'On the genealogy of ethics', in H. L. Dreyfus and
> P. Rabinow (eds.), On the
> genealogy of ethics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.--------
> Foucault, consumer,
> governmentality,
>
> Foucault, M. (1984) 'Polemics, politics and problematizations: an
> interview', in P. Rabinow
> (ed.), Polemics, politics and problematizations: an interview, New York:
> Pantheon.--------
> leisure, hobbies, governmentality, Foucault,
>
> Foucault, M. (1988) 'Technologies of the Self', in L. Martin, H. Gutman
> and P. Hutton (eds.),
> Technologies of the Self, Amherst: University of Mass Press.--------
> Foucault, self,
> governmentality, liberalism, consumer
>
> Foucault, M. (1988) 'The political technology of individuals', in L.
> Martin, H. Gutman and P.
> Hutton (eds.), The political technology of individuals, Amherst:
> University of Mass
> Press.-------- Foucault, self, governmentality, liberalism, consumer
>
> Gordon, C. (1987) 'The soul of the citizen: Max Weber and Michel
> Foucault on rationality and
> government', in S. Whimster and S. Lash (eds.), The soul of the citizen:
> Max Weber and Michel
> Foucault on rationality and government, London: Allen and Unwin:
> 293-316.-------- Weber,
> consumer, Foucault, liberalism
>
> Foucault, M. and R. Sennett (1981) 'Sexuality and solitude', in ,
> Sexuality and solitude,
> London: Junction Books.-------- body, sexuality, consumer
> Miller, P. and N. Rose (1990) 'Governing economic life', Economy and
> Society 19(1):
> 1-31.-------- Foucault, liberalism, consumer
>
> Rose, N. (1992) 'Governing the enterprising self', in P. Heelas and P.
> Morris (eds.), Governing
> the enterprising self, London: Routledge.-------- consumer, markets,
> Foucault
>
> Rose, N. (1991) Governing the Soul: the shaping of the private self,
> London:
> Rouledge.-------- Foucault, marketing
>
> Gutman, H. (1988) 'Rousseau's Confessions: a technology of the self', in
> L. Martin, H. Gutman
> and P. Hutton (eds.), Rousseau's Confessions: a technology of the self,
> Amherst: University
> of Mass Press.-------- Foucault, self, governmentality, liberalism,
> consumer, Rousseau,
> eighteenth century
> Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the
> Late Modern Age,
> Cambridge: Polity.-------- consumer, self, subject, Foucault
>
> Gordon, C. (1986) 'Question, ethos, event: Foucault on Kant and
> enlightenment', Economy and
> Society 15(1).-------- foucault, liberalism, consumer, self,
> governmentality, needs
>
> Hacking, I. (1986) 'Making up People', in T. C. e. a. Heller (ed.),
> Making up People, Stanford, CA:
> Stanford University Press.-------- marketing, Foucault,
A FEW MORE
Lears, T. J. Jackson No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the
Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (Chicago, University of
Chicago Press, 1981)
Rieff, Philip The Triumph of the Therapeutic; Uses of Faith After Freud
(New York: Harper & Row 1966)
Lears, T. J. Jackson, "From Salvation to Self-Realization: Advertising and
the Therapeutic Roots of the Consumer Culture, 1880-1930", in The Culture
of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1990, ed.
Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears. (New York: Pantheon Books,
1983)
Lears, T. J. Jackson, "The Ad Man and the Grand Inquisitor: Intimacy,
Publicity, and the Managed Self in America, 1880-1940," in George Levine,
ed., Constructions of the Self (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 1992)
McClay, Wilfred M. The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America
(Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994)
--
____________________________
Sam Binkley
Department of Sociology, New School University
65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Address: PO Box 20202, New York, NY 10009
phone: (212) 420 9425 web: http://www.erols.com/sbinkley/