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	www.theory.org.uk Resources: Foucault
		This page gives a very brief introduction to Foucault's work (or the part of it that interests us), plus a select bibliography and a bunch of links to some web resources on other sites.
		Since (as I explain further in 'Why Foucault?') Foucault didn't really go for making clear statements of his 'argument', even some of the basic claims above are open to other people coming along and saying "I hardly think that Foucault would have wanted you to feel that he was saying that...".
		Foucault, Michel (1985 [1984]), The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality, Vol.
	www.theory.org.uk /ctr-fou1.htm (870 words)

	Michel Foucault (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, on June 15, 1926.
		Archaeology was an essential method for Foucault because it supported a historiography that did not rest on the primacy of the consciousness of individual subjects; it allowed the historian of thought to operate at an unconscious level that displaced the primacy of the subject found in both phenomenology and in traditional historiography.
		Foucault maintains that the great "turn" in modern philosophy occurs when, with Kant (though no doubt he is merely an example of something much broader and deeper), it becomes possible to raise the question of whether ideas do in fact represent their objects and, if so, how (in virtue of what) they do so.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/foucault (6154 words)

	Michel Foucault (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Foucault welded hermeneutics, Freudian psychiatry and Saussurian semiotics into a powerful and idiosyncratic attack on rationalism.
		Though Foucault overstated the case for political repression through language, metaphor theory has independently developed some of his insights — how language colours and partly controls our outlooks, how social attitudes may be regulated by binary opposites.
		Foucault was a polemicist, a splendid polemicist, and it was change rather than truth he sought.
	www.textetc.com /theory/foucault.html (1067 words)

	Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
		Foucault visited and wrote on Iran during this period, a period when he was at the height of his intellectual powers.
		Foucault did not anticipate the birth of yet another modern state where old religious technologies of domination could be refashioned and institutionalized; this was a state that combined a traditionalist ideology (Islam) with the anti- imperialist discourse of the left, but also equipped itself with modern technologies of organization, surveillance, warfare, and propaganda.
		Foucault's problematic treatment of Iranian Islamism was partly due to the fact that he ignored the warnings of Iranian and Western feminists as well as secular leftists, who, early on, had developed a more balanced and critical attitude toward the revolution.
	www.wpunj.edu /newpol/issue37/Afary37.htm (4093 words)

	Michel Foucault, biography
		This text was first written by Foucault as a retrospective view about his work for the introduction to his book "History of Sexuality", it was then given by Foucault, under the pseudonym "Maurice Florence" as the article for the entry "Foucault" in "Dictionnaire des philosophes" 1984, pp 942-944.
		Foucault also tried to analyse the formation of the subject as he may appear on the other side of a normative division, becoming an object of knowledge-as a madman, a patient or a delinquent, through practices such as those of psychiatry, clinical medicine and penality (Madness and Civilization, Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish).
		Foucault has now undertaken, still within the same general project, to study the constitution of the subject as an object for himself: the formation of procedures by which the subject is led to observe himself, analyse himself, interpret himself, recognize himself as a domain of possible knowledge.
	foucault.info /foucault/biography.html (1432 words)

	Michel Foucault
		Foucault was an adolescent during the occupation of France by Germany.
		Foucault, Rape and the Construction of the Feminine Body, attacks Foucault’s theory on rape.
		“Foucault asserts that the penalty for a crime should be calculated in terms of its possible repetition; the penalty should account for the future disorder, not the past offense.
	www.criminology.fsu.edu /crimtheory/foucault.htm (4787 words)

	Dictionary for the Study of the Works of Michel Foucault
		[B]y government Foucault meant not so much the political or administrative structures of the modern state as 'the way in which the conduct of individuals or of groups might be directed: the government of children, of souls, of communities, of families, of the sick....
		Foucault opposes the "repressive hypothesis" to "bio-technico-power (or bio-power).
		Foucault teaches this concept by example from Bacon: The human Intellect, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater order and equality in things than it actually finds; and, while there are many things in Nature unique, and quite irregular, still it feigns parallels, correspondents, and relations that have no existence.
	www.california.com /~rathbone/foucau10.htm (4015 words)

	Michel Foucault on Power/Knowledge
		Foucault’s analysis states that power is situated among a cacophony of social practices and situations.
		Foucault's ideas of power/knowledge bring to our attention the fact that in fields of specialized knowledge, our actions are governed by the constituents of the power structures themselves.
		Foucault then published his Discipline and Punish, "...a study that marked a heightened interest in the disciplining effects of power (Lindgren 295)." In The History of Sexuality his analysis of his power continued.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/Speech/rccs/theory54.htm (1130 words)

	Foucault \| MetaFilter
		The alliance with Kouchner and Glucksmann transformed Foucault into a passionate advocate of humanitarian intervention, or le droit d'ingérance: the moral imperative to intervene in the domestic affairs of a nation where human rights are being systematically violated.
		But this does fit with Foucault's earlier notion of sexual identity as a means of control, but it is part of the larger scheme of the mechanisms of control classifying and labelling people to pit them against one another.
		Foucault was, I think, smart enough to realize that while his analysis of power was useful and brilliant in many ways, the relativist critique is particularly damning indictment, at least at first glance.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/54518 (3573 words)

	Critical Thinkers :: Michel Foucault Resources
		An anthology of essays by respected interpreters of Foucault, it bridges the span between A Foucault Primer and tackling the works of Foucault himself.
		Rouse demonstrates how Foucault conceived of power not as an entity ontologically exogenous to social relations but rather as a dynamic process which is conceived and executed in a multiplicity of social locations.
		However, Foucault is primarily a philosopher of history and Milgram is, instead, an empirical sociologist.
	www.synaptic.bc.ca /ejournal/foucault.htm (1522 words)

	Foucault: A Lover's Discourse About Madness and the Media
		Barthes, of course, was not explicitly writing of Foucault, but I find it hard to fathom that he could not have made the connection, at least fleetingly, as he was composing the passage.
		Foucault who abolishes the exclusions of the past and discards the arbitrary constraints of reason, Foucault who reexamines and reconnects aspects of language said to have been irreconcilable, Foucault who reveals the ultimate philosophical irony: truth often lies not so much in scientific method, with its birth perhaps in the Socratic method, but in discourse.
		Foucault is speaking of painting, but the same might be said about the mass media, not only of their images but also of their signs, their representations, their references: their language.
	www.criticism.com /md/foucault.html (1172 words)

	Foucault Studies \| Number 3, November 2005
		In 'Descent' Proposal: Pathologies of Embodiment in Nietzsche, Kafka, and Foucault, pp.
		In 'Descent' Proposal: Pathologies of Embodiment in Nietzsche, Kafka, and Foucault
		Like Kant, Foucault challenges us to rethink the way we relate freedom and truth by stressing the idea of "maturity" understood as a release from the "self-incurred tutelage" (the expression is from Kant) that otherwise characterizes so much of our lives.
	www.foucault-studies.com /no3/index.html (708 words)

	Michel Foucault -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology.
		Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it.
		Since Foucault did not write, correct, or edit any part of the text which follows, it lacks his imprimatur and does not present his own lecture notes.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~20thcentury/html/foucault.htm (394 words)

	Foucault
		Foucault's arguments about discursive formations--we should not focus on one or two privileged images, but grasp the regularities which linked the different manifestations of a certain imagery together across different sites of representation.
		Foucault's insistence on the operation of power through discursive regimes-- opens up the possibility of analyzing the power relations which function in the construction of these images.
		Foucault: This is the work of Ben Attias at California State University, Northridge.
	www.eng.fju.edu.tw /crit.97/Foucault/Foucault.htm (881 words)

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