Re: [Foucault-L] foucauldian history (and historians)

Chris Otter at Ohio State University has recently written a book called The
Victorian Eye. Not in the exact area in which you want to study by any
means, but he's a historian using Foucault. I'd suggest checking his book
out.

http://humanities.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=2963


joshua j. kurz
PhD Student, Cultural Foundations of Education
President, Graduate Employees' Student Organization
The Ohio State University
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mehmet Kentel <mehmet.kentel@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to find an appropriate department of history where I can study
> (as a PhD) history of games and play in 18th-19th century, and follow the
> transformation (systematization, classification and commodification) that
> games had experienced in the context of modernity. I want my study to be
> both a historical analysis and a critique of modernity, in the line more or
> less conducted by Foucault and others. Do you know (or are you part of) any
> departments of history, preferably in US, in which a Foucauldian approach
> to
> history and modernity is predominant or in which there are good historians
> who value and use Foucault's works?
>
> I am open and grateful to any suggestions.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mehmet Kentel
>
> Boğaziçi University - Political Science - History (Double Major)
> Istanbul
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