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    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
  •  46
    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
  •  8
    Verzet 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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    Special Issue: Chantal Mouffe: agonism and the politics of passion.
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    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
  •  21
    Boekbesprekingen
    with P. C. Beentjes, W. G. Tillmans, Kitty Mul, J. Lambrecht, ThC de Kruijf, Marc Schneiders, Hans Goddijn, Henk J. M. Schoot, Jan Lambrecht, J. Y. H. A. Jacobs, G. Rouwhorst, F. J. Theunis, D. J. Leys, Drs Jlm Vis, Drs J. L. M. Vis, A. Pavert, A. van de Pavert, E. Dirven, Joan Hemels, and Joh G. Hahn
    Bijdragen 51 (4): 440-463. 1990.
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    Boekbesprekingen
    with P. C. Beentjes, J. Lambrecht, Hendrik Hoet, Jaap van der Meij, W. G. Tillmans, Marcel Poorthuis, Th C. de Kruijf, B. Dehandschutter, Martin Parmentier, L. van Tongeren, Th Bell, J. Y. H. A. Jacobs, A. J. M. van der Helm, Hans Goddijn, H. J. Adriaanse, H. Rikhof, Henk Hoekstra, and Johan G. Hahn
    Bijdragen 53 (1): 86-111. 1992.
  •  6
    Boekbesprekingen
    with J. van Ruiten, J. T. A. G. M. van Ruiten, P. C. Beentjes, Marc Vervenne, Frans Brasseur, Bart J. Koet, Martin Parmentier, Kitty Bouwman, G. Rouwhorst, Paul Begheyn, P. van Veldhuijsen, Pim Valkenberg, and Guido Vanheeswijck
    Bijdragen 54 (2): 199-227. 1993.
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    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
  •  24
    Ten geleide
    with Koo van der Wal
    Wijsgerig 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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    Ten geleide
    with Koo van der Wal
    Wijsgerig 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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    The ‘Co‐Originality’ of Constituent Power and Representation
    with Raf Geenens, Thomas Decreus, Femmy Thewissen, and Marta Resmini
    Constellations 22 (4): 514-522. 2015.
    status: published.
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    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
  •  37
    Whitehead and German Idealism
    Process Studies 14 (4): 265-286. 1985.
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    Terugkeer van het subject: recente ontwikkelingen binnen de filosofie (edited book)
    with Rob Devos and B. Verdonck
    Leuven University Press. 2002.
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    The “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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    Theoretische Schriften/JCF Hölderlin (Hamburg, 1998)
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 61 603-604. 1999.
  • Filosofische brieven over dogmatisme en criticisme
    with F. Schelling
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 55 (3): 577-577. 1993.
  • Wüstehube, A., Das Denken aus dem Grund (review)
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 54 (3): 547. 1992.
  • Weber, M., Zur Theorie der Familie in der Rechtsphilosophie Hegels (review)
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 51 (n/a): 371. 1989.
  • Tilliette, X., La christologie idéaliste (review)
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 51 (n/a): 164. 1989.
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    Schelling versus Hegel
    with John Laughland
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 70 (3): 605. 2008.
  •  9
    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
  • Mythische figuren van de moderniteit
    with Jacques De Visscher and Jean-Pierre Wils
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (1): 166-167. 2007.
  • Ureña, E.M., K.C.F. Krause. Philosoph, Freimaurer, Weltbürger (review)
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 55 (1): 163. 1993.
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    Techniek:'tremendum et fascinosum'
    de Uil Van Minerva 12 (4): 247-256. 1996.
  • Schleiermacher, F.E.D., Kritische Gesamtausgabe, 5.Abteilung, Briefwechsel 1799-1800 (review)
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 55 (3): 558. 1993.