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5Peeters 1996
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26The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Governmentality: An Unwritten Chapter in Foucault’s Genealogy of the Modern StateCritical Horizons 23 (2): 134-156. 2022.ABSTRACT One of the productive political-philosophical concepts Foucault developed is that of governmentality. According to Foucault, governmentality is in many respects the heir of pastoral power. However, Foucault has never conclusively demonstrated the genealogical link between pastoral power and governmentality. The hypothesis that I want to put forward is that the “missing link” in this genealogy should be situated in the governmental transformations that took place in the period of the Ref…Read more
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56The Closing of the Civic Mind: Marcel Gauchet on the `Society of Individuals'Thesis Eleven 94 (1): 29-48. 2008.According to Gauchet we are living in a `society of individuals'. But a central term is missing from that formula, and not by any accident, for contemporary society has lost it from view: the term of the political. In sum, thus reads Gauchet's diagnosis, society today is haunted by a kind of individualism out of which no society can be conceived, as it obfuscates its political dimension. The aim of this article is to elaborate this diagnosis, and more specifically the idea that there is no socie…Read more
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28Verzet als ‘tegengedrag’Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 112 (2): 77-95. 2020.Resistance as ‘Counter-conduct’. On the Usefulness of Foucault’s concept of Contre-conduite This paper intends to clarify the peculiarity of counter-conduct as a form of resistance and to examine its usefulness in our neoliberal era. In view thereof, it takes off with a general discussion of Foucault’s views of the relationship between power and resistance. Then the focus shifts more specifically to governmentality and its predecessor, pastoral power, as the specific type of power against which …Read more
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10Building Collective Identities: How New Social Movements Try to Overcome Post-politicsParallax 20 (2). 2014.Special Issue: Chantal Mouffe: agonism and the politics of passion.
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31Beyond the confines of the law: Foucault’s intimations of a genealogy of the modern statePhilosophy and Social Criticism 46 (6): 651-675. 2020.The general claim advanced in this article is that Foucault’s genealogy of the modern state traces two ideal-typically different power arrangements at the origin of the modern state, roughly referred to as ‘sovereign power’ and ‘governmentality’. They are ideal-typically different in that they operate according to a different logic, including different ends, means and modi operandi. The more specific claim, then, is that due to this different logic, their ever changing interpenetration on the le…Read more
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28Neoliberalism and the Symbolic Institution of Society. Lefort and Foucault on the State and ”The Political’Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 75 (3): 525-551. 2013.This essay sets up a dialogue between Lefort’s view on the relationship between the state and modern society and Foucault’s thesis of a governmental turn in the modern power regime, whereby the relations between state and society are thoroughly redrawn. What are the main results? 1) Whereas Lefort’s political ontology leaves room for divergent agencies from which the symbolic institution of the social may unfold, his preoccupation with democracy leans him to inseparably link the symbolic institu…Read more
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35The ‘Co‐Originality’ of Constituent Power and RepresentationConstellations 22 (4): 514-522. 2015.status: published.
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16The ordinary and the extraordinary: The ‘religious’ imprint of Weber's concept of rationalizationBijdragen 65 (3): 283-302. 2004.Weber’s concept of rationalization internally relies on an opposition that is borrowed from a religious semantics: the opposition between the extraordinary and the ordinary. Taking as point of departure the expression ‘the disenchantment of the world’ I argue that this expression, and the concept of rationalization, which is connected with it, have to be understood as elements of a categorical field of tension that is dominated precisely by the mentioned opposition. Referring to the sociology of…Read more
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31Ten geleideWijsgerig Perspectief 46 (2): 4-5. 2006.Aanleiding voor dit nummer over 'democratie en representatie' is het overlijden, op 3 oktober van vorig jaar, van een van de belangrijkste naoorlogse politieke denkers in Frankrijk, Claude Lefort . Omdat we niet zozeer de man, maar des te meer zijn ideeën willen memoreren hebben we ervoor geopteerd om de kern van zijn politiek-filosofische nalatenschap onder de aandacht te brengen. Zonder twijfel is dat het inzicht in de onlosmakelijke verwevenheid van democratie en representatie
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33Ten geleideWijsgerig Perspectief 46 (2): 4-5. 2006.Aanleiding voor dit nummer over 'democratie en representatie' is het overlijden, op 3 oktober van vorig jaar, van een van de belangrijkste naoorlogse politieke denkers in Frankrijk, Claude Lefort . Omdat we niet zozeer de man, maar des te meer zijn ideeën willen memoreren hebben we ervoor geopteerd om de kern van zijn politiek-filosofische nalatenschap onder de aandacht te brengen. Zonder twijfel is dat het inzicht in de onlosmakelijke verwevenheid van democratie en representatie
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13Voorbij de grenzen Van de zuivere rede : De late Schelling over vrijheid AlS project Van de filosofieTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 50 (3). 1988.In Die Vollendung des deutschen Idealismus in der Spätphilosophie Schellings, W. Schulz concludes that the project of German idealism reaches its fulfilment in Schelling's later philosophy, in such a way that the project itself is abandoned. Schulz defines it as an attempt to conceive pure subjectivity in terms of sheer self-mediation. This project, which Schelling consistently carries through, results in the insight that pure subjectivity (identified by Schulz with pure reason) is itself mediat…Read more
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Ureña, E.M., K.C.F. Krause. Philosoph, Freimaurer, Weltbürger (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 55 (1): 163. 1993.
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6Terugkeer van het subject: recente ontwikkelingen binnen de filosofie (edited book)Universitaire Pers Leuven. 2002.
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10Universitätsschriften. Herakleitos. Kurze Darstellung des theologischen Studiums/FDE Schleiermacher, Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Abt. 1, Bd. 6 (Berlin, 1998) (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 61 602-603. 1999.
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34The “Individual Universal”Idealistic Studies 34 (1): 67-83. 2004.This article explores Schelling’s view concerning the eventual reconciliation of modern individuality and society. It is argued that in Schelling’s speculations on this subject, aesthetic models play a prominent role: on the level of society by expressing the need for a new mythology; on the level of the individual by formulating a normative ideal in which the individual is modelled after the work of artand its creator: the artistic genius. This normative view on modern individuality is quite am…Read more
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12Theoretische Schriften/JCF Hölderlin (Hamburg, 1998)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 61 603-604. 1999.
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Filosofische brieven over dogmatisme en criticismeTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 55 (3): 577-577. 1993.
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Weber, M., Zur Theorie der Familie in der Rechtsphilosophie Hegels (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 51 (n/a): 371. 1989.
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The moral inevitability of enlightenment and the risky nature of the moment. Reading Kant's was ist Aufklarung?Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (3): 447-474. 2007.