foucault in English

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family name; Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher who had much influence on the humanities and social sciences

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1. Avowing violence: Foucault and Derrida on politics, discourse and meaning

2. The method of Foucault replaces the cogwheel by a rotating mirror.

3. Birefringent prisms include the Nicol prism, Glan-Foucault prism, Glan-Thompson prism, and Wollaston prism

4. The list has become the subject of much modern commentary after it was cited by Foucault.

5. Para Michel Foucault, el Autor es una función presente en algunos discursos, es representado por el nombre propio

6. Asylums, for Foucault, were largely tools of social control, an argument that was effectively applied to mental illness more generally

7. The speed of light was not yet precisely known in 1838; its value changed in 1849 (Fizeau) and 1862 (Foucault).

8. The epigraph, quotes from Michel Foucault and V.S. Naipaul about memory and consciousness, suggests how the novel should be read.

9. Foucault is interested in these Askeses of autonomous obedience, “the technologies of individual domination, the history of how an individual acts upon himself

10. In the essay "What is Enlightenment?", Michel Foucault proposed a concept of critique based on Kant's distinction between "private" and "public" uses of reason.

11. Foucault uses the concept of government in a comprehensive sense adumbrating the close link between forms of knowledge, power techniques and processes of subjectivation.

12. Foucault endeavours to excavate the origins of the human sciences, which have their root in "life, labour, and language", that is: biology, economics, and linguistics.

13. The Body politics coordinates have been explicitly charted as a result of two major theoretical earthquakes – the work of Michel Foucault and the development of feminist approaches.

14. Askesis Food journaling, in its yielding to the calorie as a site of micro-discipline , creates docile bodies that “may be subjected, used, transformed, and improved” (Foucault 180)

15. Drawing on the work of Foucault, Nietzsche, Schmitt and Arendt, Marie Paxton outlines the importance of their themes of public contestation, contingency and necessary interdependency for contemporary Agonistic

16. The Askeses-practices of care of the self-that Michel Foucault theorized, increasing members' capacities at the same time as they encourage participation in ever-tightening webs of power

17. Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, and Ludwig Wittgenstein questioned whether our particular concepts could relate to the world in any absolute way and whether we can justify our ways of describing the world as compared with other ways.

18. 2007 August 19, Guy Trebay, “These Hills Still Talk to Him”, in New York Times‎[1]: The sexual frontier that once beckoned to adventurers as unalike as Gianni Versace and Michel Foucault has largely shifted to the Cybersphere

19. Animality connects to a larger debate around the so-called animal question that has involved such iconic thinkers as Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Georges Bataille, Emmanuel Levinas, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault

20. Here one should think about Foucault’s distinction between asceticism and obedience that would even shift the ascetic practice of the anchoresses is shifted into a light of disobedience towards church power, or as Foucault says: “a kind of raging and inverted obedience” [41] .

21. Interestingly, Foucault quotes human capital theorists such as Gary S. Becker to show how such a homo oeconomicus is by definition rational whereby to be rational means to behave realistically, that is in ways which are not aleatory but systematic.

22. Praise “Apprehending the Criminal is a work of substance and sophistication, drawing on an extensive range of historical materials (from France and from England) as well as an impressive array of theoretical analyses, ranging from the historical epistemology of Bachelard and Foucault, to more recent work in discourse analysis and intertextuality.”

23. Writing from the position of an engaged subject formed by the epistemological regime he desires to reconstitute, Moxey invokes Michel Foucault (as well as Roland Barthes, Judith Butler, and Joan Scott), Avowing that the production of knowledge originates in discursive practices that are culturally embedded and constitutive of cultural meaning.

24. With Geisteswissenschaften , A_dontigny approches directly or metaphorically an artist (Koons, Turner), a movement (American and French abstractionism), an author (Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Frege) or even a concept (such as the impossible to translate “Wirkungsgeschichtesbewusstsein”) and produces a disc which is in parallel to ‘traditional’ electroacoustics and (industrial, punk and techno sub-cultures) electronica.

25. This article argues that commercial weight‐loss organizations appropriate and debase the Askeses—practices of care of the self—that Michel Foucault theorized, increasing members’ capacities at the same time as they encourage participation in ever‐tightening webs of power.Weight Watchers, for example, claims to promote self‐knowledge, cultivate new capacities and pleasures, foster

26. Alain Badiou (/ b ɑː ˈ d j uː /; French: [alɛ̃ Badju] (listen) (help · info); born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard.Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth