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The History of Sexuality

Michel Foucault

Volume I: An Introduction

Translated by: Robert Hurley

Nietzsche, Genealogy, History

Michel Foucault (1977)

in: Language Counter-Memory. Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews.

This essay first appeared in : Hommage à Jean Hyppolite (Paris, PUF 1971)…

Ethics as ascetics: Foucault, the history of ethics, and ancient thought

Arnold I. Davidson

In presenting the topic of Michel Foucault’s significance as a writer of the history of ethics, I have two main goals. First, I hope to be able to elucidate Foucault’s own aims in shifting his attention, in his last , writings, to what he himself called “ethics.” These aims, in my opinion, have [...]

Nietzsche:La Volonté de puissance

Essai d’une transmutation de toutes les valeurs

(Études et Fragments)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Traduit par Henri Albert

Note du traducteur:  La présente traduction a été faite sur l’édition originale allemande, quinzième volume des OEuvres complètes de Frédéric Nietzsche, publié en novembre 1901, chez C. G. Naumann à Leipzig, par les soins du ” Nietzsche-Archiv “. On trouvera dans la préface [...]

Temporalité, temporalités : philosophie et sciences sociales

Claude Dubar

Temporalités, revue des sciences sociales et humaines

RESUME:

Le passage de la philosophie du temps aux approches scientifiques des temporalités a résulté de l’épuisement des apories du temps qui, d’Aristote et Saint Augustin à Kant et Husserl, ont jalonné les efforts de philosophes pour produire in abstracto une théorie unifiée du temps. Le constat par [...]

Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences

Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference,
trans. Alan Bass. London: Routledge, pp 278-294

Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an “event,” if this loaded word did not entail a meaning which it is precisely the function of structural-or structuralist-thought to reduce or to suspect. But let [...]

Leo Strauss: works

Texts by Strauss

Tocqueville, living two generations after Burke, accepted modern democracy on a Burkian basis, without accepting all the [?] of natural religion. That is the starting point of Tocqueville. Tocqueville was here for a very short time, making some inquiries for the French Government. The result of his observations was these remarkable two volumes [...]

The Closing of the American Mind and other essays

Allan Bloom

Professor Bloom has his own way of doing things. Writing about the higher education in America, he does not observe the forms, manners and ceremonies of what is called (usually by itself) the community of scholars. Yet his credentials are irreproachable. He is the author of an excellent book on Shakespeare’s politics, and has [...]

Nietzsche: The Antichrist

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, “Ecce Homo,” “The Antichrist” is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their finalform. Notes for it had been accumulating for years and it was to have constituted the first [...]

Marx: Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

From the Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
by Karl Marx
Deutsch-Französische Jahrbucher, February, 1844
For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism. The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et [...]

Intellectuals and the state: The case of the Straussians

Richard H. King
University of Nottingham, UK
Abstract

The only tenable generalization about the relationship between intellectuals and the state (or political involvement generally) is that there is not one to be made. ‘Speaking truth to power’ is a cherished cliché associated with the topic, but the history of intellectuals in politics, whatever their political orientation, reveals [...]

Horkheimer: Eclipse of Reason

Max Horkheimer

The reflections set forth in this book seek to relate the current impasse in philosophical thinking to the concrete dilemma of the human outlook for the future. The economic and social problems of the present time have had both able and extensive treatment at the hands of other writers in various countries. This [...]