Studies in the Philosophy of Michel Foucault: A French Alternative to Anglo-Americanism

This collection reminds the reader that Foucault was first and foremost a philosopher. The study focuses on the three principal aspects of Foucault's work as Foucault himself acknowledged them to be namely, subjectivity, truth and power. Studies in the Philosophy of Michel Foucault: A French Alternative to Anglo-Americanism 2 Table of Contents 5 Commendatory Preface 7 Editors' Preface 9 Introduction 11 Subjectivity 14 1 Sarah Hamilton: Public and Private within the Panoptic Modality of Facebook 16 Bibliography 40 2 Scott Nicholson: The Reviser and the Whistle-Blower: Dewey, Foucault and Education 42 I. Foucault 43 II. Dewey 46 III. The Function of Education 49 Conclusion 54 Bibliography 57 Truth 58 3 Samuel Talcott: Foucault and Historical Epistemology: Development and Critique of the Philosophy of the Norm 60 Bibliography 78 4 Scott Balasak: Archaeology, Genealogy, Method 80 Archaeology 82 History 82 Power 88 Genealogy 89 Singularity and Event 90 Origin 91 Emergence/Beginning 92 The Body 93 Connections 95 The Expert Witness 95 Conclusion 99 Bibliography 101 5 Saladdin Ahmed: Foucault, Truth, Genealogy 104 Bibliography 117 6 Rohit Dalvi: Practices of Freedom: Foucault as Eudaimonist 120 Bibliography 132 7 Annie Larivée: Foucault and His Use of the Ancients 134 1 — Foucault and his critical use of the Ancients 135 2 — The positive consideration of the care of the self by Foucault 142 3 — Care of the self, friendship, and relational creativity 144 Bibliography 150 8 Brian Lightbody: Self-Transformation and Foucault 154 Section One: Self-Transformation as Philosophical Ethos 155 Section Two: The problem of "self-transformation" 158 Section Three: Is Foucauldian self-transformation incoherent? 162 Bibliography 166 Back Matter 169