Books & ideas

How Can One Be a Left Nietzschean?

Arnaud Sorosina — 2023-05-02T07:30:00Z

The Foucauldian analysis of the relations between power and knowledge draws on Nietzschean genealogy. For Jacques Bouveresse, however, Foucault, Deleuze, and their followers have put a left spin on the philosopher at the cost of a misinterpretation that leaves him perplexed.

From Infamous Men to Men of the Forest

Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod — 2021-01-04T07:00:00Z

What if, after his interest in “infamous men,” Foucault had turned his attention to the history of ecological marginalities, examining hermits, noble savages and other men of the forest? Philippe Artières writes a counter-factual fiction using real archives.

How Can We Talk about Sexual Minorities?

Mathieu Trachman — 2017-06-29T07:00:00Z

Minority sexualities give rise to much discourse, which is more widely ranging than it is broadly disseminated. As much as the question of their actual practice, these sexualities raise the issue of how to talk about them. Halfway between essay and fiction, Marco Vidal offers some potential avenues to explore.

The Curious Monsieur Veyne

Sarah Rey — 2015-12-17T08:00:00Z

Thanks to his work on Greco-Roman antiquity, his intellectual curiosity, his pronounced taste for interdisciplinarity, his sense of humor, and the freedom that informs all his research, Paul Veyne is a twentieth-century historian whose work cannot be avoided. A loose cannon at the heart of the academic establishment, a deep thinker and a dilettante, Veyne invites us, through his work, to a festival of thought.

The Anthropology of Violence in the Colonial Context

Benoît Trépied — 2015-01-29T06:30:00Z

How can we produce a history of power and violence in the colonial context that is not confined to the discourse of the State, but takes full measure of the historicity of ethnographic and archival sources? Michel Naepels answers this question on the basis of extensive research in New Caledonia.

Foucault: Truth in Action

Dinah Ribard — 2008-10-23T07:33:15Z

Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France were dedicated, in 1982-1983, to “the drama of truth”, that is to say to the manner in which the enunciation of truth changes he who has the courage to speak it. Because, for Foucault, philosophical discourse is not only the bearer of rational thought, but also and above all thought in action.