Foucault and the Indefinite Work of Freedom

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A a-theistic theodicy Foucault’s work as, 197 philosophical fragments, 180 philosophy of history, 165, 179–180, 187 power, 289–329 the absolute absolute context, 329 absolute discourse, 170 absolute guarantee, 271–272 absolute knowing, 171–175, 183, 329 certainty of absolutes, 195–196, 329 abstention (sex), 353 actuality, 102, 280–281, 379–383, 385 Age of Reason, 234–241 alternatives, 349 Althuser, Louis Pierre, 128 analytic philosophy of history, 2–3 Annales school, 188 anticipation, 401 archaeological approach development of, 159 History of Madness, 63–66, 213, 214–217 Index 432 Foucault and the Indefinite Work of Freedom knowledge, 101 The Archaeology of Knowledge (Foucault), 225 the archive, 140 discourses and statements, 133–141 énoncés, 77, 133–135 systems of rules, 133, 141 the archive, 123–125, 140, 141, 171 sensibility, 41–44 art, coherence in themes, 230–232 art. See creativity Artaud, Antonin, 131, 252, 254, 262 asylums, 255–256, 258–259, 288–290 attitudes, 371–372 Augustine (saint), 6 austerity, 369–370 autonomy autonomous individuals, 366–368 autonomy of history, 56–57 freedom-autonomy-truth, 361, 384 Les Aveux de la chair (Foucault), 377 B Barbin, Herculine, 40 Bataille, georges, 129 Baugh, Bruce, 157–158, 159, 160–161, 190 behaviour. See practices Being and Time (Heidegger), 130 Bentham, Jeremy, 319 Bernauer, James W., 350 Blanchot, Maurice, 129 Bloch, Ernst, 414–417, 418 Bloch, Mark, 64 the body care of self, 372–374 power, 294, 297, 319–320, 322 Index 433 punishment, 119, 281–282, 285–286, 294–297, 299–304, 305–306, 323 Bosch, Hieronymus, 230–234 C Canguilhem, georges, 92 The Care of the Self (Foucault) attitudes, 371–372 care (use of term), 368–369 concern for self, 369–370, 373–374, 378, 384–385 infléchissement, 374 political game, 375–376 realities, 370–371 sexual practices, 369–370, 377 See also Foucault, Michel (works of); History of Sexuality (Foucault); self Carr, david, 22 Clausewitz, Carl Philipp gottfried von, 310 claustrophobic reading, 327–328 coherence Foucault on his work, 79 Hegel, 28 mindsets, 240, 242, 276 power, 312, 315–316 sensibility, 244–246 themes in art, 230–232 unreason, 239 cold stream, 414–418 Collège de France, 67, 103–109, 161, 173, 176, 259, 270, 346 Collingwood, R.g. autonomy of history, 56–57 difficulties and obscurities, 7 historical thought, 55–58, 62, 90 434 Foucault and the Indefinite Work of Freedom Idea of History (Knox, ed.), 55, 58 intentional structure, 87 New Leviathan (Collingwood), 57 object, 71–74 problematization, 57 rapproachment between philosophy and history, 54–55 res gestae, 88–89 scientific history, 56–58 writers’ purpose, 6–7 confinement asylums, 255–256, 258–259, 288–290 economics, 236–238, 256–258 History of Madness, 236–241 madness, 250–251, 260 response to threat, 248–250, 255 See also constraints Connolly, W.E., 35, 37 constraints lawful behaviour, 298 making sense of history, 328 punitive reason, 268–270, 287, 316–317, 329 relationship configurations, 352–354 systems of, 397, 402 unfolding lives, 324 will to knowledge, 272–273 See also confinement; freedom; normalization; system(s) of rules Continental Philosophy, 32 contingency actual world, 379–383, 385 examining claims of, 398–401 genealogical approach, 101 meaning of, 397–398 self-consolidation, 407, 409 Index 435 structures of constraint, 397, 402 understanding of present, 286–287 Cousins, Mark, 238–239 creativity alternate pantheon of writers and artists, 131, 252, 254, 262 art of existence, 348–349, 356–357, 372–373 freedom-creativity-truth, 363–364 self, 363–364, 384, 385 cunning of reason, 220–223, 228–229, 233–234, 259–261, 315–316 D da-sein, 150 daraki, Maria, 344 de Certeau, Michel, 9, 10 de-familiarization, 351–355 defert, daniel, 128, 129, 130 deleuze, gilles, 63–64, 115–116, 130, 160 déraison, 218–219, 260–261 derrida, Jacques, 213–214, 217, 219, 220 descartes, René, 7, 235 desire feeding history, 198 freedom, 201, 327 knowledge, 11, 107 language, 17, 243 problematization of, 356 sexual activity, 262, 357, 361 difficulties and obscurities Discipline and Punish, 284 Foucault and, 94, 284 history, 10–11, 20, 25, 48 philosophy, 7–8, 179, 402 philosophy of history, 44–45 436 Foucault and the Indefinite Work of Freedom See also philosophy of history Discipline and Punish (Foucault) disciplinary regimes, 311–314 discursive practices, 305 historians and, 47–48 illegality, 309–310 nature of work, 264–268 panopticism, 317–321 power, 270 problem of prisons, 268...