书籍介绍
Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.
The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor.
This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it.
精彩摘录
- "Weber, although often cast as a conservative, offers a devastating account of modern capitalism which certainly does not suggest that he wished to preserve it whole. Foucault has been cast as a conservative by some, in the sense that he has consistently opposed much of modern French Marxism, "existi"
- "And this is what I would call genealogy, that is, a form of history which can account for the constitution of knowledges, discourses, domains of objects, etc., without having to make reference to a subject which is either transcendental in relation to the field of events or runs in its empty samenes"
- "Why does Nietzsche challenge the pursuit of origin (Ursprung), at least on those occasions when he is truly a genealogist? First, because it is an attempt to capture the exact essence of things, their purest possibilities, and their carefully protected identities; because this search assumes the exi"
- "The analysis of descent permits the dissociation of the self, its recognition and displacement as an empty synthesis, in liberating a profusion of lost events. On the contrary, to follow the complex course of descent is to maintain passing events in their proper dispersion; it is to identify the acc"
- "Emergence is thus the entry of forces; it is their eruption, the leap from the wings to center stage, each in its youthful strength...As descent qualifies the strength or weakness of an instinct and its inscription on a body, emergence designates a place of confrontation, but not as a closed field o"
- "Chance is not simply the drawing of lots, but raising the stakes in every attempt to master chance through the will to power, and giving rise to the risk of an even greater chance. The world we know is not this ultimately simple configuration where events are reduced to accentuate their essential tr"
- "The historical sense gives rise to three uses that oppose and correspond to the three Platonic modalities of history. The first is parodic, directed against reality, and opposes them of history as reminiscence or recognition; the second is dissociative, directed against identity, and opposes history"
- "Perhaps it is time to study discourses not only in terms of their expressive value or formal transformation, but according to their modes of existence. The modes of circulation, valorization, attribution, and appropriation of discourses vary with each culture and are modified within each."
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不少来自规训与惩罚、性史。读了其中的采访，基本和讲稿差别不大。非常有味道
Foucault revisited
Foucault is as difficult to read as all those contemporary French scholars...But he did fashion a frame-transition in modern thoughts.
未完，目前对其中的一些议题不感兴趣
Rabinow wonderfully recapitulates the major thrusts throughout Foucault's multiple works, of astonishingly equally elegant language.
What is Enlightenment, Right of death and power over life, we other Victorians
不适合作为读福柯的第一本书。编者从福柯的主要著作中选取部分章节 （有时候会打乱章节顺序），又进一步删减原文内容。缺失的原境给阅读带来很大障碍，得不断回去找原著才能达到基本的理解。福柯在性史第一卷讲到他所说的power是什么，居然没有把这部分选进来，而对power的理解和把握对于第一次阅读福柯的读者太重要了，因为福柯说的power如果理解成权力就错了，那是结果，福柯说的power是动态的、细微的、千丝万缕的关系。最后面的几个访谈值得一看，福柯讲他的思考脉络。three domains of genealogy: truth axis, power axis, ethical axis.
I tried, but this is a pain to read... 有些文章節選得失去了上下文都不知所云了。
What is enlightenment?
He is no longer the rhapsodist of the eternal, but the strategist of life and death. (P77). 老老实实读了Nietzsche, Genealogy, History这一节。
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