Oh yeah, Cusset's book is really good in dealing with the reception of
French "postmodern philosophy" in US academia.
2008/12/1 Glen Fuller <gfuller1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> "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)
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> Fax. +49 (0)3834/86-3432
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French "postmodern philosophy" in US academia.
2008/12/1 Glen Fuller <gfuller1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> "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
> Sprechstunde während der Vorlesungszeit Mi 16-18h (Raum 2.15)
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>
--
Chetan Vemuri
West Des Moines, IA
aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
(515)-418-2771
"You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
world"