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1436Taylor and Foucault on Power and FreedomIn Barry Smart (ed.), Michel Foucault: Critical Assessments, Routledge. pp. 352--70. 1994.
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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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151Considerations on Marxism, Phenomenology and Power. Interview with Michel Foucault; Recorded on April 3rd, 1978Foucault Studies 14 98-114. 2012.
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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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84Nietzsche, Feminism and Political Theory (edited book)Routledge. 1993._Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip!' '_Thus Spoke Zarathustra__ _'the democratic movement is...a form assumed by man in decay' _Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche's views on women and politics have long been the most embarrassing aspects of his thought. Why then has the work of Nietzsche aroused so much interest in recent years from feminist theorists and political philosophers? In answer, this collection comprises twelve outsanding essays on Mietzsche 's work to current debates in fem…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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72Foucault, critique and rightsCritical Horizons 6 (1): 267-287. 2005.This paper outlines Foucault's genealogical conception of critique and argues that it is not inconsistent with his appeals to concepts of right so long as these are understood in terms of his historical and naturalistic approach to rights. This approach is explained by reference to Nietzsche's account of the origins of rights and duties and the example of Aboriginal rights is used to exemplify the historical character of rights understood as internal to power relations. Drawing upon the contempo…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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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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55Deleuze and DemocracyContemporary Political Theory 4 (4): 400-413. 2005.This article responds to Philippe Mengue's claim that Deleuzian political philosophy is fundamentally hostile to democracy. After outlining key elements of the attitude towards democracy in Deleuze and Guattari's work, it addresses three major arguments put forward in support of this claim. The first relies on Deleuze's rejection of transcendence and his critical remarks about human rights; the second relies on the contrast between majoritarian and minoritarian politics outlined in A Thousand Pl…Read more
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49Deleuze and NaturalismInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 24 (3): 348-364. 2016.Against the tendency to regard Deleuze as a materialist and a naturalistic thinker, I argue that his core philosophical writings involve commitments that are incompatible with contemporary scientific naturalism. He defends different versions of a distinction between philosophy and natural science that is inconsistent with methodological naturalism and with the scientific image of the world as a single causally interconnected system. He defends the existence of a virtual realm of entities that is…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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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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47L'identité des imaginaires sociaux et la nature des droitsPhilosophiques 33 (2): 499-506. 2006.Review article on Charles Taylor's 'Modern Social Imaginaries'
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47Power and Right in Nietzsche and FoucaultInternational Studies in Philosophy 36 (3): 43-61. 2004.
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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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46Foucault and the Strategic Model of PowerCritical Horizons 15 (1): 14-27. 2014.Allen criticizes Foucault for having a “narrow and impoverished conception of social interaction, according to which all such interaction is strategic.” I challenge this claim, partly on the basis of comments by Foucault which explicitly acknowledge and in some cases endorse forms of non-strategic interaction, but more importantly on the basis of the significant changes in Foucault’s concept of power that he elaborated in lectures from 1978 onwards and in “The Subject and Power.” His 1975–1976 l…Read more
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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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34Deleuze and the Postcolonial (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2010.This is the first collection of essays bringing together Deleuzian Philosophy and postcolonial theory. Bignall and Patton assemble some of the world's leading figures in these fields to explore rich linkages between two previously unrelated areas of study.
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