"French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the
Intellectual Life of the United States" by François Cusset. This is a book
and I found it entertaining, plus very interesting to gain an understanding
of the 'literary' interpretations and so on.
In Australia, there is Keith Windshuttle's essay on Foucault. I despise Windshuttle as an intellectual (??), but the essay is a useful document for thinking about how conservative historians engage with Foucault's work.
Lastly, I am not sure what tsort of project you are doing, but to do this in a Foucaultian manner, you'd need to look beyond actual texts to look at when, where and by whom did Foucault's ideas spread. In Sydney there was a concerted effort by a number of then young academics to publish some of Foucault's work and ideas locally. People like Paul Patton and Meaghan Morris were writing and organising small edited collections published by the Feral Press and the like. In terms of the archive (and further problematised by the traffic in graduate students in the 1970s and 1980s), these documents say more about Foucault's reception than actual text that tries to represent such a reception.
Ciao,
Glen.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hania Siebenpfeiffer" <hania.siebenpfeiffer@xxxxxx>
To: <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 5:55 AM
Subject: [Foucault-L] Reception of Foucault in Humanities
Dear Members,
I am in search for articles and/or books that reflect upon or are a document
for a critical and fruitful reception of Foucault's thinking and writing
within the Humanities.
I am well aware that this is a rather broad question and I am bearing in
mind that it comes to a point where the answers can only be subjective, but
I am working on an Anthology of Foucault's Traces within the (European)
Humanities and I am wondering which articles the list-members would consider
to be eminent when it comes to thinking Foucault ahead. I am most of all
interested in articles that take Foucault as a starting point for their own
conceptual, intellectual, epistemological etc. theories without loosing
touch to discourse analyses/discourse theory.
I am happy for any answer what so ever.
All best and Thanks - Hania
-----------------------------------------------------
Prof. Dr. Hania Siebenpfeiffer
Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald
Institut für deutsche Philologie
Rubenowstr. 3
17487 Greifswald
Tel. +49 (0)3834/86-3405 (Büro)
Tel. +49 (0)3834/86-3406 (Sekretariat)
Tel.: +49 (0)162/42 94 776 (Mobil)
Fax. +49 (0)3834/86-3432
Email: hania.siebenpfeiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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In Australia, there is Keith Windshuttle's essay on Foucault. I despise Windshuttle as an intellectual (??), but the essay is a useful document for thinking about how conservative historians engage with Foucault's work.
Lastly, I am not sure what tsort of project you are doing, but to do this in a Foucaultian manner, you'd need to look beyond actual texts to look at when, where and by whom did Foucault's ideas spread. In Sydney there was a concerted effort by a number of then young academics to publish some of Foucault's work and ideas locally. People like Paul Patton and Meaghan Morris were writing and organising small edited collections published by the Feral Press and the like. In terms of the archive (and further problematised by the traffic in graduate students in the 1970s and 1980s), these documents say more about Foucault's reception than actual text that tries to represent such a reception.
Ciao,
Glen.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hania Siebenpfeiffer" <hania.siebenpfeiffer@xxxxxx>
To: <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 5:55 AM
Subject: [Foucault-L] Reception of Foucault in Humanities
Dear Members,
I am in search for articles and/or books that reflect upon or are a document
for a critical and fruitful reception of Foucault's thinking and writing
within the Humanities.
I am well aware that this is a rather broad question and I am bearing in
mind that it comes to a point where the answers can only be subjective, but
I am working on an Anthology of Foucault's Traces within the (European)
Humanities and I am wondering which articles the list-members would consider
to be eminent when it comes to thinking Foucault ahead. I am most of all
interested in articles that take Foucault as a starting point for their own
conceptual, intellectual, epistemological etc. theories without loosing
touch to discourse analyses/discourse theory.
I am happy for any answer what so ever.
All best and Thanks - Hania
-----------------------------------------------------
Prof. Dr. Hania Siebenpfeiffer
Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald
Institut für deutsche Philologie
Rubenowstr. 3
17487 Greifswald
Tel. +49 (0)3834/86-3405 (Büro)
Tel. +49 (0)3834/86-3406 (Sekretariat)
Tel.: +49 (0)162/42 94 776 (Mobil)
Fax. +49 (0)3834/86-3432
Email: hania.siebenpfeiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sprechstunde während der Vorlesungszeit Mi 16-18h (Raum 2.15)
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