Hi Claudius.
Yes, it is great news that the material is now available in English translation. As far as new essays drawing upon that work it is perhaps too early within the English-speaking world to have seen much of that just yet, but I have to admit that I haven't been following that closely for the last couple of years, being more preoccupied with the themes of lecture series such as 'Abnormal' and 'Society Must Be Defended' because they engage more directly with my own research interests (i.e., eighteenth and nineteenth century political theory and historiography). I would be interested to know of any though, especially ones that intersect with Marxist and/or anarcho- syndicalist thought. Perhaps Martin Hardie is reading this and knows something about some engagement with Foucault's lectures on biopolitics within autonomist theory?
Warm regards,
David
On 20/04/2009, at 8:58 PM, claudius wrote:
Yes, it is great news that the material is now available in English translation. As far as new essays drawing upon that work it is perhaps too early within the English-speaking world to have seen much of that just yet, but I have to admit that I haven't been following that closely for the last couple of years, being more preoccupied with the themes of lecture series such as 'Abnormal' and 'Society Must Be Defended' because they engage more directly with my own research interests (i.e., eighteenth and nineteenth century political theory and historiography). I would be interested to know of any though, especially ones that intersect with Marxist and/or anarcho- syndicalist thought. Perhaps Martin Hardie is reading this and knows something about some engagement with Foucault's lectures on biopolitics within autonomist theory?
Warm regards,
David
On 20/04/2009, at 8:58 PM, claudius wrote:
Hi David, hi everybody,
its good to hear that the birth of biopolitcs is finally out in english. It
has been a pleasure to read for me some years ago, because it is a lot about
ordo-liberals and neoclassic economists (who are favourite enemys of mine).
Are there some new readings on Foucault's treatment of economics? Are there
some new (for example marxist) treatments of the fact that Foucault does not
seem to support eonomic theories at all?
Yours Claudius
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Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Biopolitics, Liberalism--quote from Dits et Ecrits
Jason,
Thomas Lemke's translation is quite different, but it appears on page
73 of Rabinow (ed), Michel Foucault, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth.
It is the first page of that course summary.
The whole thing is rather short; as Machiel says I would get the book
of the course instead.
best wishes
David
On 20/04/2009, at 5:25 PM, M. Karskens wrote:
The quote is from the overview of the course of
1979, that was written afterwards and published
in the Annuaire of the Collège de France. The
Course itself is much more interestiing, it is translated now in
English
yours,
machiel karskens
At 00:10 19-4-2009, you wrote:
In his article on biopolitics, Thomas Lemke
quotes Foucault on the connection between biopolitics and liberalism:
'[Foucault] stresses that the problems of biopolitics “cannot be
separated from the frame of political rationality, in which they
appeared and were aggravated. Especially not from ‘liberalism’, since
by referring to this rationality they got the form of a provocation.
How can the phenomenon of the ‘population’ with its specific effects
and problems be taken into account by a system that endorses the
respect for a subject of rights and for the freedom of choice? In
whose
name and by what rules may they be governed?”
(Dits et Escrits: 818, translation T.L.; see also 822-3).
Can anyone tell me what the source text of this
quote is (as indicated above, it's Lemke's
translation). This sounds like it came from the
1979 Birth of Biopolitics lectures.
The answer to the question Foucault posed, by the way, is civil
society.
Jason R. Weidner
PhD. candidate, Department of International Relations
Florida International University
Miami, FL USA
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Prof. Machiel Karskens
social and political philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy
Radboud University Nijmegen - The Netherlands
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