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32Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, PoliticsStanford University Press. 2010.These essays provide important interpretations and analyze critical developments of the political philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. They situate his thought in the contemporary intellectual landscape by comparing him with contemporaries such as Derrida, Rorty, and Rawls and show how elements of his philosophy may be usefully applied to key contemporary issues including colonization and decolonization, the nature of liberal democracy, and the concepts and critical utopian aspirations of political phi…Read more
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31Review of 'Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960', by Gary Gutting (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (1): 196-199. 2013.
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29Foucault and normative political philosophyIn Timothy O'Leary & Christopher Falzon (eds.), Foucault and Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 204. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Governmental and Public Reason Governmentality and the State Liberal and Neo‐Liberal Governmentality Governmentality and Legitimacy References.
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29Deleuze: A Critical Reader (edited book)Blackwell. 1991.Includes discussions of Deleuze's original interpretations of Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and Bergson. Other chapters discuss his work on mathematics and the relevance of his conceptual creativity for art criticism, feminist, literary, and cultural studies. Includes contributions by leading French philosophers (Nancy, Macherey, Malabou, Zourabichvili) as well as American Deleuze scholars (Bogue, Boundas, Holland, Massumi, Smith).
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28Simulations (edited book)Semiotext(E). 1983.Simulations never existed as a book before it was "translated" into English. Actually it came from two different bookCovers written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of Simulations, and most provocative because it made a fiction of theory, was "The Procession of Simulacra." It had first been published in Simulacre et Simulations. The second part, written much earlier and in a more academic mode, came from L'Echange Symbolique et la Mort. It was a half-earnest, half-parodical…Read more
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28Political legitimacyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 18 (6): 661-668. 2015.
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28Bio-power and Non-sovereign RightsJournal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 6 (15): 65-71. 2011.
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27Difference and RepetitionAthlone. 1994.This brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuze's most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers,Difference and Repetition develops two central conceptspure difference and complex repetition&mdasha;and shows how the two concepts are related. While difference implies divergence and decentering, repetition is associated with displacement and disguising. Central in initiating the shift in French …Read more
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27Sovereignty Conditioned and UnconditionedSubstance 43 (2): 162-173. 2014.Derrida's discussion of sovereignty in The Beast & Sovereign Vol. 1
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27Deconstruction and Nothingness: Deliberation, Daoism, and Derrida on DecisionKritike 16 (1): 1-21. 2022.This article traces a connection between the Daoist conception of nothingness and democratic deliberation by way of Derrida’s deconstructive analysis of decision. A widespread understanding of deliberation relies on the idea that the force of argument should be the sole determinant of individual and collective views. It follows that deliberation is genuine only if participants can change their views as a result of reasoned argument, that is to say only if there is the possibility of a decision. …Read more
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26Nietzsche on Power and Democracy circa 1876–1881In Manuel Knoll & Barry Stocker (eds.), Nietzsche as Political Philosopher, De Gruyter. pp. 93-112. 2014.Nietzsche is widely considered to be an aristocratic and anti-democratic thinker. However, his early ‘middle period’ work, offers a more nuanced view of democracy: critical of its existing forms in Europe at the time, yet surprisingly supportive of a certain ideal of ‘democracy to come.’ Against the received view of Nietzsche’s politics, this talk explores the possibility of a conception of democratic political society on Nietzschean foundations.
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25Deleuze, Rawls et la philosophie politique utopiqueCités 40 (4): 75-86. 2009.Les philosophies politiques de Deleuze et de Rawls comportent toutes deux une dimension utopique immanente, qui offre un cadre et un prétexte utiles pour la comparaison. Les travaux des deux auteurs paraissent au premier abord articulés sur des plans profondément différents : alors que ceux du premier expriment une orientation principalement critique, ceux du second ont pour premier objectif...
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24Review of Jacques Derrida, Peggy Kamuf (ed.), Elizabeth Rottenberg (ed.), Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume I (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (5). 2008.
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23‘Rorty’s “Continental” Interlocutors,’ contribution to Book RoundtableTheoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 67 (162): 88-116. 2020.Clayton Chin provides a helpful reconstruction of Rorty’s philosophy that aims to show its usefulness for political thought, while also shedding light on its relationships with Continental philosophy and on Rorty’s reading strategy employed in relation to some Continental thinkers. In relation to the first aim, Chin argues convincingly that Rorty’s primary contribution to political thought is located at the meta-theoretical level, by which he means the level at which questions may be asked about…Read more
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22Recent Work on Nietzsche’s Social and Political PhilosophyNietzsche Studien 50 (1): 382-395. 2021.Against a widely supported view that Nietzsche was not a political thinker, there have been a number of edited collections and monographs devoted either to Nietzsche’s politics or, what is not quite the same thing, relationships between his thought and contemporary political philosophy. What is striking about this secondary literature is the degree of divergence among the positions taken. The books discussed in the present review provide further illustration of this diversity. This applies not o…Read more
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18The Reception and Evolution of Foucault's Political PhilosophyKritike 12 (2): 1-21. 2018.With the benefit of the complete publication of Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, the reception of his work by political philosophers in the English-speaking world during the late 1970s and early 1980s appears extremely confused. This reception was based on the English translations of work published in the mid-1970s, chiefly Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality Volume One, along with collections of interviews from the same period. The misunderstandings of those works we…Read more
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17In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (edited book)Semiotext(E). 2007.Published one year after Forget Foucault, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities may be the most important sociopolitical manifesto of the twentieth century: it calls for nothing less than the end of both sociology and politics. Disenfranchised revolutionaries hoped to reach the masses directly through spectacular actions, but their message merely played into the hands of the media and the state. In a media society meaning has no meaning anymore; communication merely communicates itself. Jean Ba…Read more
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16Deleuze's Political PhilosophyIn Daniel W. Smith & Henry Somers-Hall (eds.), The Cambridge companion to Deleuze, Cambridge University Press. pp. 198. 2012.
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14Liberalism and Its FutureThe European Legacy 24 (2): 220-224. 2018.Review of Duncan Bell, Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire, Princeton University Press 2016.
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13Deleuze and Pragmatism (edited book)Routledge. 2014.This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of American pragmatist thought, taking seriously the commitment to pluralism at the heart of both. Contributors explore in novel ways Deleuze’s explicit references to pragmatism, and examine the philosophical significance of a number of points at which Deleuze’s philosophy converges with, or diverges from, the work of leading pragmatists. The papers of the first part of the volume take as their focus Deleuze’…Read more
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13FIVE / Power and Biopower in FoucaultIn Vernon W. Cisney & Nicolae Morar (eds.), Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, University of Chicago Press. pp. 102-118. 2015.
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11Agamben and Foucault on biopower and biopoliticsIn Matthew Calarco & Steven DeCaroli (eds.), Giorgio Agamben: sovereignty and life, Stanford University Press. pp. 203--218. 2007.
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6From Resistance to GovernmentIn Christopher Falzon, Timothy O'Leary & Jana Sawicki (eds.), A Companion to Foucault, Wiley. 2013.Interviews formed an integral part of Foucault's work alongside and complementary to the published works. It is primarily in interviews that he elaborates on the implications of his historical studies for thinking about the problems raised by social and political movements. Like his published books, Foucault's lectures sought to engage with the social, political, and intellectual present in which they were presented. In this sense, they are closer to the interviews. This chapter focuses on the d…Read more
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