PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the 2011-12 academic year
– precise seminar content may change from year to year.
Core Reading
Foucault Texts to Buy
Essential Works, volume 1: Ethics and volume 3: Power (Penguin).
The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (Penguin).
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981-2 (Palgrave
Macmillan).
On Foucault
The following are strongly recommended as essential purchases:
Gary Gutting (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (2nd, revised edition).
Dianna Taylor (ed.), Foucault: Key Concepts (Acumen Press).
SYLLABUS
Week 1 x 2 classes
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Introduction to Foucault: A Project of Historical Ontology
Foucault on Kant and modernity
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Foucault, ‘What is Enlightenment?’, in Ethics, pp. 303-19; or Foucault Reader, pp. 32-50.
See also Foucault, ‘What is Critique?’; ‘What is Revolution?’, in Foucault, The Politics of
Truth (Semiotext (e)), pp. 41-83, pp. 83-97.
Kant, ‘An Answer to the Question: “What is Enlightenment?”’, in Kant, Political Writings,
ed. Hans Reiss (Cambridge UP), pp. 54-61.
Kimberley Hutchings, ‘Foucault’s Critical Attitude’, in Hutchings, Kant, Critique, and
Politics (Routledge), pp. 102-25.
David Owen, ‘Genealogy as Historical Ontology: Foucault, Methodology, and Critique’, in
Owen, Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault (Routledge), pp. 140-63.
Gerald L. Bruns, ‘Foucault’s Modernism’, in Gutting, Cambridge Companion to Foucault,
pp. 348-79.
Week 2 x 2 classes
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Foucault on Power and Punishment: Questions of Agency
Foucault on Nietzsche and Genealogy
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Selections from Discipline and Punish in The Foucault Reader, part two, section II, pp. 169ff.
‘The Punitive Society’, and ‘Psychiatric Power’, in Ethics, pp. 23-37 & pp. 39-50.
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‘The Political Technology of Individuals’, in Power, pp. 403-418.
Joseph Rouse, ‘Power/Knowledge’, in Gutting, The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, pp.
95-123.
G. Deleuze, ‘A New Cartographer’, in Foucault (1988), pp. 23-44.
Foucault, ‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, and History’, in The Foucault Reader, pp. 76-100.
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, preface, essays one and two (see Cambridge UP
second edition).
David Owen, ‘The Contest of Enlightenment: An Essay on Critique and Genealogy,’ Journal
of Nietzsche Studies 25 (Spring 2003): 35–58.
Raymond Geuss, ‘Genealogy as Critique’, in Geuss, Outside Ethics (2005), pp. 153-160.
Week 3 x 2 classes
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A Post-Nietzschean Ethics and Politics?
Historicising the Natural: Foucault on Power and Repression
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Foucault, ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’, ‘Truth and Power’, & ‘The Subject and Power’, &
‘Truth and Power’, in Power, pp. 1-16, pp. 111-134, pp. 326-49.
Foucault, ‘Nietzsche, Freud, Marx’, in The Essential Works, volume two: Aesthetics, pp. 26979.
William E. Connolly, ‘Beyond Good and Evil: The Ethical Sensibility of Michel Foucault’, in
Political Theory, 21 (3), 1993, pp. 365-89; also in Jeremy Moss (ed.), The Later Foucault
(Sage 1998), pp. 108-29.
Johanna Oksala, Foucault’s Politicisation of Ontology’, in Continental Philosophy Review,
43, 2010, pp. 445-466.
See also: Hans Sluga, ‘Foucault’s Encounter with Heidegger and Nietzsche’, in Gutting,
Cambridge Companion to Foucault, pp. 210-240.
Foucault, ‘We “Other Victorians’ & ‘The Repressive Hypothesis’, in The History of Sexuality
volume one, an Introduction, part one, and part two, chapter 1, and both in The Foucault
Reader, pp. 292-300 & pp. 301-29.
Joel Whitebrook, ‘Against Interiority: Foucault’s Struggle with Psychoanalysis’, in Gutting,
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, pp. 312-348.
Week 4 x 2 classes
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Foucault and Biopolitics
Foucault on Care of Self 1
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Foucault, ‘Society must be defended’, ‘Security, Territory, and Population’, ‘The Birth of
Biopolitics’, ‘On the Government of the Living’, in Ethics, pp. 59-87.
Foucault, ‘Governmentality’ & ‘“Omnes et Singulatim”: Toward a Critique of Political
Reason’, in Power, pp. 201-223 & pp. 298-325.
Foucault on power over life (biopower), in Society must be defended: lectures 1975-6,
especially pp. 239-65.
John Protevi, ‘What does Foucault think is new about neo-liberalism?’, Pli, 21, 2010.
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Foucault, ‘Preface to the History of Sexuality volume two’, ‘Technologies of the Self’, in
Ethics, pp. 199-207, pp. 223-253.
Foucault, ‘Introduction’, chapters 1-3 of The Use of Pleasure (HS volume two), pp. 1-33.
Foucault, ‘The Cultivation of the Self’, part two of The Care of the Self (HS volume three),
pp. 37-69.
Foucault, Hermeneutics of the Subject, pp. Lectures 1-3, pp. 1-65.
Arnold I. Davidson, ‘Ethics as ascetics: Foucault, the History of Ethics, and Ancient
Thought’, in Gutting, Cambridge Companion to Foucault, pp. 123-149.
James W. Bernauer & Michael Mahon, ‘Foucault’s Ethical Imagination’, in ibid., pp. 149176.
Week 5 x 2 classes
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Foucault on Care of Self 2
Foucault, Marxism and Feminism
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Foucault, Hermeneutics of the Subject, lectures 4, 5, 12-14, 16, 22-24, pp. 65-81, pp. 81-107,
pp. 229-289, pp. 315-331, pp. 437-491.
Foucault, ‘An Interview by Stephen Riggins’, ‘Friendship as a Way of Life’, ‘The Battle for
Chastity’, ‘Self Writing’, ‘On the Genealogy of Ethics: Overview of Work in Progress’, ‘The
Ethics of the Concern for the self as a Practice of Freedom’, ‘The Masked Philosopher’, in
Ethics, pp. 121-35, 135-141, 185-99, 207-223, 253-281, 281-303, 321-29.
Plato, Alcibiades.
James Urpeth, ‘Noble Ascesis: Between Nietzsche and Foucault’, New Nietzsche Studies, 2:
¾, Summer 1998, pp. 65-93.
Alan Milchman & Alan Rosenberg, ‘The Aesthetic and Ascetic Dimensions of an Ethics of
Self-Fashioning: Nietzsche and Foucault’, Parrhesia, 2, 2007, pp. 44-65.
Beatrice Han, ‘Nietzsche and Foucault on Style: The Limits of the Aesthetic Paradigm’,
available from KAP.
Alexander Nehamas, ‘A Fate for Socrates’ Reason: Foucault on the Care of the Self’, in
Nehamas, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (University of
California Press, 2000), pp. 157-188.
Jürgen Habermas, ‘The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel
Foucault’ & ‘Some Questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again’, chapters 9
and 10 of Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (MIT Press, 1987).
David Ingram, ‘Foucault and Habermas’, in Cambridge Companion to Foucault, pp. 240-84.
Hubert L. Dreyfus & Paul Rabinow, ‘What is Maturity? Habermas and Foucault on “What is
Enlightenment?”’, in David C. Hoy (ed.), Foucault: A Critical Reader (Blackwell 1986), pp.
109-23.
Thomas McCarthy, ‘The Critique of Impure Reason: Foucault and the Frankfurt School’,
Political Theory, 18: 3, 1990, pp. 437-69.
Thomas L. Dumm, ‘The Politics of Post-modern Aesthetics: Habermas contra Foucault’,
Political Theory, 16: 2, 1988, pp. 209-228.
Stephen K. White, ‘Foucault’s Challenge to Critical Theory’, American Political Science
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Review, 80: 2, 1986, pp. 419-432.
Jana Sawicki, ‘Feminism, Foucault and “Subjects” of Power and Freedom’, in Jeremy Moss
(ed.), The Later Foucault (Sage 1998), pp. 93-108.
Jana Sawicki, ‘Queering Foucault and the Subject of Feminism’, in Cambridge Companion to
Foucault, pp. 379-401.
Gilles Deleuze, ‘Foldings, or the Inside of Thought (Subjectivation)’, Foucault, pp. 94-123.
G. Deleuze, ‘Control and Becoming’ & ‘Postscript on Control Societies’, in Negotiations, pp.
167-83.
Extra Relevant Materials by Foucault
The Essential Works in three volumes: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Power (Penguin).
The History of Sexuality, volume one (‘An Introduction’); volume two (‘The Use of
Pleasure’); volume three (‘The Care of the Self’).
Language, Counter-Memory, and Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, trans. Donald F.
Bouchard & Sherry Simon (Basil Blackwell, 1977), e.g. ‘Intellectuals and Power: a
conversation between Foucault and Deleuze’, pp. 205-17.
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and other Writings 1972-77, ed. Colin Gordon
(Harvester Press).
Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings 1977-84, ed. Lawrence D.
Kritzman (Routledge, 1988), esp. ‘The Minimalist Self’, pp. 3-17; ‘Critical
Theory/Intellectual History’, pp. 17-47 (pp. 31-3 on Nietzsche); ‘An Aesthetics of
Existence’, pp. 47-57; ‘The Return of Morality’, pp. 242-55; ‘The Concern for Truth’,
pp. 255-71.
Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Foucault, ed. Luther H. Martin et. al (Tavistock).
The Politics of Truth, Introduction by J. Rajchman, ed. S. Lotringer (Semiotext (e)).
Foucault and his Interlocutors, ed. Arnold I. Davidson (University of Chicago Press,
1997), esp. Gilles Deleuze, ‘Desire and Pleasure’, pp. 183-95; Pierre Hadot, ‘Forms
of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy’, pp. 203-25.
The Final Foucault, ed. James Bernauer & David Rasmussen (MIT Press, 1988).
The Lecture Courses
Society must be defended: 1975-6, trans. David Macey (Penguin).
Security, Territory, Population: 1977-8, trans. Graham Burchell (Palgrave Macmillan).
The Birth of Biopolitics: 1978-9, trans. Graham Burchell (Palgrave Macmillan).
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: 1981-2, trans. Graham Burchell (Palgrave Macmillan).
The Government of the Self and Others: 1982-3, trans. Graham Burchell (Palgrave
Macmillan).
The Courage of Truth: 1983-4, trans. Graham Burchell (Palgrave Macmillan).
See also not yet translated: Leçons sur la Volonté de Savoir: 1970-1 (Gallimard 2011).
Further Studies of Foucault: Essays and Books
Allen, Amy (2003), ‘Foucault and Enlightenment: A Critical Reappraisal’, Constellations, 10,
pp. 180-198.
Ashenden, Samantha & Owen, David (1999), Foucault contra Habermas (Sage).
Barry, Andrew et. al (eds.) (1996), Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, neoliberalism, and rationalities of Government (University of Chicago Press).
Bennett, Jane (1996), ‘How is it, then, we still remain barbarians?: Foucault, Schiller, and the
Aestheticization of Ethics’, Political Theory, 24, pp. 653-772.
Bernauer, James W. (1990), Michel Foucault’s Force of Flight: Towards an Ethics for
Thought (Humanities Press).
Bevir, Mark (1999), ‘Foucault and Critique: Deploying Agency against Autonomy’, Political
Studies, 47: 1, pp. 65-84.
Binkley, Sam & Capetillo, Jorge (eds.) (2009), A Foucault for the 21st Century:
Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium (Cambridge
Scholars).
Blencowe, Claire (2011), Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique
(Palgrave Macmillan).
Boothroyd, David (1996), ‘Foucault’s Alimentary Philosophy: Care of the Self and
Responsibility for the Other’, Man and World, 29, pp. 361-86.
Bracken, Patrick (1995), ‘Beyond Liberation: Foucault and the notion of a Critical
Psychiatry’, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 2, pp. 1-13.
Bunton, Robert & Petersen, Alan (1997), Foucault, Health, and Medicine (Routledge).
Burchell, Graham et. al (eds.) (1991), The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality
(University of Chicago Press).
Butler, Judith (1997), ‘Subjection, Resistance, and Resignification: Between Freud and
Foucault’, in Butler, The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford UP), pp. 83-106.
--- (2002), ‘What is Critique?An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue’, in D. Ingram (ed.), The
Political: Readings in Continental Philosophy (Blackwell), pp. 212-26.
Carrette, J. (2000), Foucault and Religion (Routledge).
Colebrook, Claire (1998), ‘Ethics, Positivity, and Gender: Foucault, Aristotle, and the Care of
the Self’, Philosophy Today, 42: 1/4 , pp. 40-52.
Coles, Romand (1991), ‘Foucault’s Dialogical Artistic Ethos’, Theory, Culture, and Society,
pp. 99-120.
Comay, Rebecca (1986), ‘Excavating the Repressive Hypothesis: Aporias of Liberation in
Foucault’, Telos 67, pp. 111-119.
Cook, Deborah (1987), ‘The Turn towards Subjectivity: Foucault’s Legacy’, Journal of the
British Society for Phenomenology, 18, pp. 215-25.
--- (1990), ‘Nietzsche and Foucault on Ursprung and Genealogy’, Clio, 19, pp. 299-309.
Dean, Carolyn J. (1994), ‘The Productive Hypothesis: Foucault, Gender, and the History of
Sexuality’, History and Theory, 33: 3, pp. 271-96.
Deleuze, Gilles (1988), Foucault, trans. Sean Hand (Continuum Press).
--- (1995), Negotiations: 1972-90, trans. M. Joughin (New York: Columbia University Press),
for the interviews on Foucault, pp. 81-119.
Detel, Wolfgang (1996), ‘Foucault on Power and the Will to Knowledge’, European Journal
of Philosophy, 4, pp. 296-327.
Deveaux, Monique (1994), ‘Feminism and Empowerment: A Critical Reading of Foucault’,
Feminist Studies, 20, pp. 223-247.
Devos, Roib (2002), ‘The Return of the Subject in Michel Foucault’, American Catholic
Philosophical Quarterly, 76, pp. 255-80.
Dews, Peter (1984), ‘Power and Subjectivity in Foucault’, New Left Review, 144, pp. 72-96.
--- (1989), ‘The Return of the Subject in the Late Foucault’, Radical Philosophy, 51,
pp. 37-41.
Dumm, Thomas, L. (2002), Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom (Rowman &
Littlefield).
Dreyfus Hubert L. & Rabinow, Paul (1982), Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and
Hermeneutics (Harvester Press).
Durst, David (2000), ‘The Place of the Political in Derrida and Foucault’, Political Theory,
28, pp. 675-89.
Faubion, James (2003), ‘Toward an Anthropology of the Ethical: Foucault and the
Pedagogies of Autopoiesis’, in Edith Wyschograd (ed.), The Ethical (Blackwell), pp.
146-65.
Fimiani, Mariapaola (1999), ‘Foucault: Rewriting Kant’, Philosophical Inquiry, 21, pp. 99120.
Fitzsimons, P. (1999), ‘Foucault, regimes of punishment, and the question of liberty’,
International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 27, pp. 379-99.
Flynn, Thomas (1985), ‘Truth and Subjectivation in the Later Foucault’, Journal of
Philosophy, 82, pp. 531-40.
--- (2005), ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life: Foucault and Hadot’, Philosophy and
Social Criticism, 31, 5-6, pp. 609-22.
Fraser, Mariam (1997), ‘Feminism, Foucault, and Deleuze’, Theory, Culture, and Society, 14:
2, pp. 23ff.
Fraser, Nancy (1985), ‘Foucault: A Young Conservative?’, Ethics, 96, pp. 165-84.
Geuss, Raymond (2005), Outside Ethics (Princeton UP), esp. ‘Virtue and the Good Life’ and
‘Genealogy as Critique’.
Gordon, Colin (1986), ‘Question, Ethos, Event: Foucault on Kant and Enlightenment’,
Economy and Society, 15, pp. 71-87.
Gutting, Gary (1990), ‘Foucault’s Genealogical Method’, in P. French et. al (eds.), Midwest
Studies in Philosophy, volume 15, (University of Minnesota Press), pp. 327-44.
--- (ed.) (2003), The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (second edition;
Cambridge University Press).
Hadot, Pierre (1995), ‘Reflections on the Idea of the “Cultivation of the Self”’’, in
Philosophy as a Way of Life, pp. 206-15.
Han, Beatrice (2002), Foucault’s Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and the
Historical (Stanford University Press).
Hanssen, Beatrice (2000), ‘Between Kant and Nietzsche: Foucault’s Critique’ & ‘Power,
Force, War: On Foucault’s Society must be defended’, both in Hanssen, Critique of
Violence (Routledge), pp. 30-96 & pp. 97-157.
Hekman, Susan J. (1996), (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Foucault (Penn State University
Press).
Hoy, David C. (1986), Foucault: A Critical Reader (Basil Blackwell).
Huijer, Marli (1999), ‘The Aesthetics of Existence in the work of Michel Foucault’,
Philosophy and Social Criticism, 25: 2, pp. 61ff.
Humphries, Michael L. (1997), ‘Foucault on Writing and the Self in the Meditations of
Marcus Aurelius and the Confessions of St Augustine’, Arethusa, 30: 1, pp. 125ff.
Ingram, David (1986), ‘Foucault and the Frankfurt School: A Discourse on Nietzsche, Power,
and Knowledge’, Praxis International, 6, pp. 311-327.
Keat, Russell (1986), ‘The Human Body in Social Theory: Reich, Foucault, and the
Repressive Hypothesis’, Radical Philosophy 42, pp. 24-32.
Keenan, Tom (1987), ‘The Paradox of Knowledge and Power: Reading Foucault on a Bias’,
Political Theory, 15, pp. 5-37.
Kelly, Michael (ed.), Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate (MIT
Press).
O’ Leary, Timothy (2006), Foucault and the Art of Ethics (Continuum).
Lemm, Vanessa (2008), ‘The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault,
and the Question of Animal Life’, in Herman Siemens & Vasti Roodt (eds.),
Nietzsche, Power, and Politics (Walter de Gruyter), pp. 719-741.
Mahon, Michael, Foucault’s Nietzschean Genealogy: Truth, Power, and the Subject (SUNY
Press 1992).
Marsden, Richard (1999), The Nature of Capital: Marx after Foucault (Routledge).
May, Todd (2006), The Philosophy of Foucault (Acumen), esp. chapter four, pp. 96-126.
McGushin, Edward F. (2007), Foucault’s Askēsis: An Introduction to the Philosophical Life
(Northwestern University Press).
McNay, Lois (1993), Foucault and Feminism (Northeastern University Press).
McNeil, Will (1998), ‘Care for the Self: Ethics in Heidegger and Foucault’, Philosophy
Today, 42: ¼, pp. 53ff.
Miller, James (1990), ‘Carnivals of Atrocity: Foucault, Nietzsche, Cruelty’, Political Theory,
18, pp. 470-91.
Mills, Catherine (2003), ‘Contesting the Political: Butler and Foucault on Power and
Resistance’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 11, pp. 253-72.
Morris, Phyllis S. (1996), ‘Self-Creating Selves: Sartre and Foucault’, ACPQ, 70, pp. 537-49.
Nealon, Jeffrey T. (2008), Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications Since
1984 (Stanford University Press).
Neocleous, Mark (1996), ‘Perpetual War: Schmitt, Foucault, Fascism’, Philosophy and Social
Criticism, 22, pp. 47-66.
Oksala, Johanna (2005), Foucault on Freedom (Cambridge University Press).
Parsons, S. (1988), ‘Foucault and the Problem of Kant’, Praxis International 8, pp. 317-28.
Patton, Paul (2004), ‘Power and Right in Nietzsche and Foucault’, International Studies in
Philosophy, 36: 3, pp. 43-61.
Pottage, Alain (1998), ‘Power as an art of Contingency: Luhmann, Deleuze, Foucault’,
Economy and Society, 27: 1, pp. 1-27.
Prozorov, Sergei (2007), Foucault, Freedom, and Sovereignty (Ashgate).
Rajchman, John (1985), Michel Foucault: The Freedom of Philosophy (Columbia University
Press).
--- (1991), Truth and Eros: Foucault, Lacan, and the Question of Ethics (Routledge).
Robinson, Keith (1999), ‘The Foucault/Deleuze Conjunction’, Philosophy Today, 43: 1, pp.
57ff.
--- (2007), ‘An Immanent Transcendental: Foucault, Kant, and Critical Philosophy’, Radical
Philosophy, 141, pp. 12-22.
Rorty, Richard (1991), ‘Moral Identity and Private Autonomy: The Case of Foucault’, in
Rorty, Essays on Heidegger and Others (Cambridge UP), pp. 93-98.
Rose, Nikolas (1999), Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought (Cambridge UP).
--- ( 2006), The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the TwentyFirst Century (Princeton University Press).
Sawicki, Jana (1986), ‘Foucault and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Difference’, Hypatia 1,
pp. 23-36.
--- (1987), ‘Heidegger and Foucault: Escaping Technological Nihilism’, Philosophy and
Social Criticism, 13, pp. 155-73.
--- (1991), Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body (Routledge).
Schrift, Alan D. (1995), Nietzsche’s French Legacy (Routledge), esp. chapter two on
Foucault.
Schwartz, Michael (1998), ‘Critical Reproblematization: Foucault and the Task of Modern
Philosophy’, Radical Philosophy, 91, pp. 19-29.
Scott, Charles E. (1990), The Question of Ethics: Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger (Indiana
University Press).
--- (1991), ‘The Question of Ethics in Foucault’s Thought’, Journal of the British Society for
Phenomenology, 22, pp. 33-43.
Shapiro, Gary (2003), Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying
(University of Chicago Press).
Shusterman, Richard (2000), ‘Somaesthetics and Care of the Self’, Monist, 83, pp. 530-51.
Simons, Jon (1995), Foucault and the Political (Routledge).
Smart, Barry (1983), Foucault, Marxism, and Critique (Routledge).
Sullivan, Robert R. (1996), ‘The Birth of the Prison: Discipline or Punish?’, Journal of
Criminal Justice, 24: 5, pp. 449-458.
Taylor, Charles (1984), ‘Foucault on Freedom and Truth’, Political Theory 12, pp. 152-83
(reprinted in Hoy).
Taylor, Dianna (2003), ‘Practising Politics with Foucault and Kant: Toward a Critical Life’,
Philosophy and Social Criticism, 29, pp. 259-80.
Taylor, Dianna and Vintges, Karen (eds.), (2004), Feminism and the Final Foucault
(University of Illinois Press).
Thacker, Andrew (1993), ‘Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence’, Radical Philosophy 63, pp.
13-21.
Thiele, Leslie Paul (1991), ‘The Agony of Politics: The Nietzschean Roots of Foucault’s
Thought’, American Political Science Review, 84, pp. 907-925.
Ure, Michael (2008), ‘Senecan Moods: Foucault and Nietzsche on the Art of the Self’,
in Nietzsche’s Therapy, pp. 55-87.
Vintges, Karen (2001), ‘Must we burn Foucault? Ethics as Art of Living’, Continental
Philosophy Review, 34, pp. 165-81.
Visker, Rudi (1990), ‘Can Genealogy be Critical?: A Somewhat Unromantic Look at
Nietzsche and Foucault’, Man and World, 23, pp. 441-452.
--- (1995), Michel Foucault: Genealogy as Critique (Verso).
Weberman, David (2000), ‘Are Freedom and Anti-Humanism Compatible? The Case of
Foucault and Butler’, Constellations, 7, pp. 255-71.
Whitebrook, Joel (1999), ‘Freud, Foucault and the Dialogue with Unreason’, Philosophy and
Social Criticism, 25: 6, pp. 29-66.
Wilson, Timothy H. (1995), ‘Foucault, Genealogy, History’, Philosophy Today, 39, pp. 157170.
Other Relevant Texts
Giorgio Agamben, Homer Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford UP).
Roberto Esposito, Bios. Biopolitics and Philosophy (University of Minnesota Press).