FOUCAULT AND WRITING HISTORY - Goldstein

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Résumé :
This volume is the first to address Foucault's influence and the potential of his work in the understanding and the writing of history. It does so critically and accessibly.
Scholars from the United States, France and Italy, including historians, sociologists, an anthropogist and a philosopher, range over Foucault's writing - on love and the family in classical antiquity, the constitution of the self, the history of science and sexuality, to the origins of the liberal state. But, true to its subject, this book does not conceive of history divorced from philosophy: it explores how Foucault's understanding of the past relates to his ideas of truth, ethics, knowledge and action. All-in-all, the book offers a series of mind-opening perspectives on Foucault's work, on the past, and on the present....

Biographie:
Francois Delaparte (Cite Universitaire) 6. Combined Inderdevelopment: Discipline and the Law in Imperial and Soviet Russia: Laura Engelstein (Princeton University) 7. Foucault and the Post Revolutionary Self: Jan Goldstein (University of Chicago) 8. Historicizing the Subject of Desire: David Halperin (MIT) 9. Kant Foucault and Three Women: Carla Hesse (University of California) 10. Onanism, Sociability and the Imagination: Thomas Laquer (University of California) 11. Love and Reproductive Biology in fin-de-siecle France A Foucauldian Lacuna: Robert Nye (University of Oklahoma) 12. Governing Poverty: The Social Question in France: Giovanni Procacci 13. Assymetry in the Stylistics of Roman Marriage: Richard Saller (University of Chicago) 14. Foucault and the Freudian Subject: John Toews (University of Washington)...