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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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Mabo, difference and the body of the lawIn Pheng Cheah, David Fraser & Judith Grbich (eds.), Thinking Through the Body of the Law, New York University Press. 1996.
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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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59Between Deleuze and Derrida (edited book)Continuum. 2003.Between Deleuze and Derrida is the first book to explore and compare the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, two leading philosophers of French post-structuralism. This is done via a number of key themes, including the philosophy of difference, language, memory, time, event, and love, as well as relating these themes to their respective approaches to Philosophy, Literature, Politics and Mathematics. Contributors: Eric Alliez, Branka Arsic, Gregg Lambert, Leonard Lawlor, Alphonso Lingis, …Read more
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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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376Metamorpho-logic: Bodies and Powers in A Thousand PlateausJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 25 (2): 157-169. 1994.
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48Round Table Discussion with Lynne Huffer, Steven Ogden, Paul Patton, and Jana SawickiFoucault Studies 24 77-101. 2018.Joanna Crosby and Dianna Taylor: The theme of this special section of Foucault Studies, “Foucauldian Spaces,” emerged out of the 2016 meeting of the Foucault Circle, where the four of you were participants. Each of the three individual papers contained in the special section critically deploys and/or reconceptualizes an aspect of Foucault’s work that engages and offers particular insight into the construction, experience, and utilization of space. We’d like to ask the four of you to reflect on w…Read more
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46Deconstruction and the Problem of SovereigntyDerrida Today 10 (1): 1-20. 2017.This paper surveys Derrida’s discussions of political sovereignty in order to highlight his preference for a cosmopolitan world order and show how the deconstruction of sovereignty cannot proceed on the model of his earlier analyses of concepts such as justice, hospitality, forgiveness and democracy.
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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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1Future politicsIn Paul Patton & John Protevi (eds.), Between Deleuze and Derrida, Continuum. 2003.
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91Derrida, Politics and Democracy to ComePhilosophy Compass 2 (6): 766-780. 2007.Derrida's early reluctance to spell out political implications of deconstruction gave way during the course of the 1980s to a series of analyses of political concepts and issues. This article identifies the principal intellectual strategies of Derrida's political engagements and provides a detailed account of his concept of ‘democracy to come’. Finally, it suggests several points of contact between Derrida and recent liberal political philosophy, as well as some areas in which deconstructive ana…Read more
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58Concept and politics in Derrida and DeleuzeCritical Horizons 4 (2): 157-175. 2003.This paper points to significant similarities between the political orientations of Deleuze and Derrida. Derrida's appeal to a pure form of existing concepts (absolute hospitality, pure forgiveness, and so on) parallels Deleuze and Guattari's distinction between relative and absolute 'deterritorialisation'. In each case, the absolute form of the concept is a condition of the possibility of change.
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30Review 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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28Foucault 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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34Deleuze and the PoliticalRoutledge. 2000.With clarity, precision and economy, Paul Patton synthesizes the full range of Deleuze's work. He interweaves with great dexterity motifs that extend from his early works, such as Nietzsche and Philosophy , to the more recent What is Philosophy? and his key works such as Anti-Oedipus and Difference and Repetition . Throughout, Deleuze and the Political demonstrates Deleuze's relevance to theoretical and practical concerns in a number of disciplines including philosophy, political theory, sociolo…Read more
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81Activism, Philosophy and Actuality in Deleuze and FoucaultDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 4 (Suppl): 84-103. 2010.Deleuze and Foucault shared a period of political activism and both drew connections between their activism and their respective approaches to philosophy. However, despite their shared political commitments and praise of each other's work, there remained important philosophical differences between them which became more and more apparent over time. This article identifies some of the political issues over which they disagreed and shows how they relate to some of their underlying philosophical di…Read more
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47Power and Right in Nietzsche and FoucaultInternational Studies in Philosophy 36 (3): 43-61. 2004.
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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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49Government, rights and legitimacy: Foucault and liberal political normativityEuropean Journal of Political Theory 15 (2): 223-239. 2016.One way to characterise the difference between analytic and Continental political philosophy concerns the different roles played by normative and descriptive analysis in each case. This article argues that, even though Michel Foucault’s genealogy of liberal and neoliberal governmentality and John Rawls’s political liberalism involve different articulations of normative and descriptive concerns, they are complementary rather than antithetical to one another. The argument is developed in three sta…Read more
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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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27Sovereignty Conditioned and UnconditionedSubstance 43 (2): 162-173. 2014.Derrida's discussion of sovereignty in The Beast & Sovereign Vol. 1
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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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