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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978369
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This special issue is the fruit of the University of South Carolina's 2022 annual comparative literature conference, which was held virtually, on the theme of "Truth in the Late Foucault." Our conference theme was related to a major event in Michel Foucault's oeuvre—the publication of the fourth and final volume of the History of Sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh in February 2018. This conference, however, was not merely a venue for reflections on the final Foucault, but it emphatically chose to focus on the question of truth, which was of critical importance to Foucault's thinking in his final years. As our call for papers describes it, "[d]uring the last five years of his life, Foucault was above all concerned
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/428/image/coversmallEditors' Introduction: Truth and the Late Foucault2025-12-23text/htmlen-USEditors' Introduction: Truth and the Late Foucault2025-12-232025TWOProject MUSE®383122026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-23Foucault's Conduct: A Link Between Government, Power, and Philosophy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978370
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In this paper, I argue that the notion of conduct is one of the central yet understudied cornerstones of Foucault's later work from On the Government of the Living (1979–1980) to his lectures titled The Government of Self and Others (1982–1983). In particular, conduct connects three key notions for Foucault: First, starting in 1978, "governmentality"; second, "power"; and third, the practice of philosophy itself, including Foucault's own, that he develops in his lectures on antiquity and the history of truth-telling during the last four years of his life. The relation between governmentality, power, and conduct, for some time now, has caught the attention of critics, especially surrounding the notion of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/428/image/coversmallFoucault's Conduct: A Link Between Government, Power, and Philosophy2025-12-23text/htmlen-USFoucault's Conduct: A Link Between Government, Power, and Philosophy2025-12-232025TWOProject MUSE®603732026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-23Truth and Critique in the Late Foucault: On the Governmentality and the Alethurgy of the Intellectual's Practice
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978371
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This article aims to identify some specificities of Michel Foucault's critical practice from a different framework than from the classical political role of the intellectual.1 From Émile Zola in the Dreyfus Affair to Edward Said on Western and Middle Eastern issues, there is a common propensity in many approaches to the history of the intellectual to conceive of critique as an alternative discourse to official and institutional discourses, as a form of rational and moral judgment against state or religious tribunals—in short, to acknowledge critique as a counterpower. As Immanuel Kant argued long ago on the critical enterprise of philosophical Enlightenment, there is a higher sense of morality—courage
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/428/image/coversmallTruth and Critique in the Late Foucault: On the Governmentality and the Alethurgy of the Intellectual's Practice2025-12-23text/htmlen-USTruth and Critique in the Late Foucault: On the Governmentality and the Alethurgy of the Intellectual's Practice2025-12-232025TWOProject MUSE®898542026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-23Pederasty, Pleasure, and the Formation of the Self: The Platonic Erotics in the Symposium
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Foucault approaches Greek sexuality through principles illustrated in Oneirocriticism.1 Its author, Artemidorus, a diviner in the second century BCE, presents a generalized set of sexual-social relations valorized under two major principles: isomorphism and the activity principle. Isomorphism means that for the participants of erotic practices, their sexual position and social position remain homogeneous. For instance, a male citizen who actively participates in social activities should be situated in a dominant position in sex, since sexual activities and social activities share the same nature and substance.2 The activity principle is perceived from the privileged status of the erotic subject—typically an adult
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/428/image/coversmallPederasty, Pleasure, and the Formation of the Self: The Platonic Erotics in the Symposium2025-12-23text/htmlen-USPederasty, Pleasure, and the Formation of the Self: The Platonic Erotics in the Symposium2025-12-232025TWOProject MUSE®583022026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-23The Fate of Semiotics
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Semiotics struck me with an intellectual lightning bolt as an undergraduate philosophy student. In spring 1985, I took Bruce Wilshire's undergraduate survey course on American philosophy at Rutgers University. One of our textbooks was Justus Buchler's Philosophical Writings of Peirce (1940), which included a chapter titled "Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs." This particular chapter includes a range of material written by Peirce on the theory of signs from around 1893 to 1910. Some of it was unpublished during Peirce's lifetime (1839–1914), other parts first appeared in his definitions of index and sign for Baldwin's Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology (1901), and still other parts could be found in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/428/image/coversmallThe Fate of Semiotics2025-12-23text/htmlen-USThe Fate of Semiotics2025-12-232025TWOProject MUSE®616562026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-23Homer's Iliad and the Problem of Force by Charles Stocking (review)
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Outside of the very productive—and cantankerous—circles of Homeric scholars, a handful of ideas about Homer's epics became reasonably well-known by the end of the twentieth century. Chief among them is whether "Homer" wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey (to which most people confidently say no now, but for wildly different reasons); but for partisans of literary pursuits, close runners-up are questions about Erich Auerbach's characterization of Homeric narrative in Mimesis, the power of Simone Weil's "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force," and whether or not it is true that Homeric characters have no sense of self or "interiority."Charles Stocking, in Homer's Iliad and the Problem of Force, takes on the questions—and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/428/image/coversmallHomer's Iliad and the Problem of Force by Charles Stocking (review)2025-12-23text/htmlen-USHomer's Iliad and the Problem of Force by Charles Stocking (review)2025-12-232025TWOProject MUSE®148322026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-23