Brady
Page reference is the original. Foucault websites carry info on new
publication's e.g. Foucault Resources at http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au . Searches at
amazon.fr and amazon.com on 'Foucault cours' / 'Foucault lectures' return the
details. The story behind the Italian presence in the editions is, briefly,
that an initial unauthorised Italian publication of the 76 lectures - with plans
to publish the rest - led to the Foucault estate being persuaded to change its
mind and allow an authorised publication. Alessandro Fontana who took the
joint lead in the pirating was a longstanding friend and
collaborator-interviewer-translator-editor of Foucault. We are in his debt. The series introductions
in each volume say a bit more.
I think the order was partly a function of the Italians' choices, state of
the source materials, editors' expertise etc. As previously reported here there
have been 4 French volumes since 97, 2 more due out this year (78 and 79), 6
more to come after that.
I agree with Stuart Elden that the editors to date have done a fine job.
The US publisher has not been all that speedy and exact publication schedules
are unclear. The 1982 volume may appear this year if they accelerate a bit,
and the 1973-4 in 2005.
regards
Colin
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> Dear Colin,
>
> Thank you for all of your contributions to the list. The last passage you
> cited from the 1982 lectures has me very interested. Is the reference you gave
> (i.e. pagination) to the forthcoming English edition? If so, when can we
> expect it to hit the shelves (and the other volumes)? Also, could you (or anyone
> else on the list) shed some light on the publication procedures for these
> lectures? Which have been published in French? I believe I am correct in saying
> that only _Abnormal_ and _Society Must Be Defended_ have been translated and
> published in English. Is there any logic being employed in the order of their
> publication -- which is to say, is the lack of chronology an effect of
> English translation or a decision made by the French series editors? I find it
> interesting that all of the issue editors for the first two volumes published in
> English are Italian. Any reason for this about which you are aware? Do you
> know of a place online where I can get some of this information? Tha
> nk you
> in advance for any light you may be able to shed on these inquiries.
>
> Best,
>
> Brady
>
>
> No, to the best of my knowledge it has not been published. I wrote about
> this
> lecture in my introduction to the 'Power' volume, in a passage which was
> unfortunately cut. I am hoping to publish the material soon somewhere else.
> I
> don't have the tape transcript to hand right now; when I can I will try to
> supply
> the exact words for this remark.
>
> Cher Francois
>
> J'espere que ceci est plus clair! F a dit a peu pres que la
> gouvernementalite
> etait aussi nettement superieure comme grille d'analyse a celle en termes de
>
> pouvoir-savoir, qu'avait ete celle-ci comme avancee sur la theorie
> d'ideologie.
>
> Couple of footnotes to recent discussions.
> in the 82 volume there is a short but important passage discussing the
> relations between ethics of self, political resistance and
> governmentality.(P
> 241-2). This is a short extract from Graham Burchell's translation (in
> press).
>
> <we see the meaning, or rather the almost total absence of meaning given to
> some nonetheless very familiar expressions which continue to permeate our
> discourse - like getting back to oneself, freeing oneself, being oneself,
> being
> authentic, etc. - when we see the absence of meaning and thought in all of
> these
> expressions we employ today, then I think there is nothing to be proud of in
> our
> current efforts to reconstitute an ethic of the self. And in this series of
> undertakings to reconstitute an ethic of the self, in this series of more or
>
> less blocked and ossified efforts, and in the movement we now make to refer
> ourselves constantly to this ethic of the self without ever giving it any
> content, I think it may be that we are forced to suspect that the
> constitution of an
> ethic of the self may be impossible today, even though it may be an urgent,
> fundamental and politically indispensable task, if it is true after all that
>
> there is no first or final point of resistance to political power other than
> in
> the relationship of self to self.
>
> If you like, in other words, what I mean is this: if we take the question of
>
> power, of political power, situating it in the more general question of
> governmentality understood as a strategic field of power relations in the
> broadest
> and not merely political sense of the term, if we understand by
> governmentality a strategic field of power relations in their mobility,
> transformability and
> reversibility, then I do not think that reflection on this notion of
> governmentality can avoid passing through, theoretically and practically,
> the element
> of a subject defined by the relationship of self to self. Although the
> theory of political power as an institution usually refers to a juridical
> conception of the subject of right, it seems to me that the analysis of
> governmentality - that is to say, of power as a set of reversible
> relationships - must refer
> to an ethics of the subject defined by the relationship of self to self.
> Quite simply this means that in the type of analysis I have been trying to
> advance for some time you can see that power relations, governmentality, the
>
> government of the self and of others, and the relationship of self to self
> constitute
> a chain, a thread, and I think it is around these notions that we should be
> able to connect together the question of politics and the question of
> ethics.
> >>
>
> On Agamben, Negri, Foucault and biopower there is valuable discussion by Nik
>
> Rose and Paul Rabinow at
> http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/sociology/pdf/RabinowandRose-BiopowerToday03
> .pdf . Among other interesting stuff on Nik's site is
> his and Paul's introduction to the new 1-volume 'essential F'.
> http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/sociology/whoswho/rose.htm
>
> regards
>
> Colin
>
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