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Foucault on the History of Governmentality

Foucault introduces the term ‘governmentality’ in Security, Territory, Population, and The Birth of Biopolitics at the Collège de...

It is often assumed that existentialism and “poststructuralism” think differently toward the subject and its place in thought...

In the writings of Foucault, religion is thought in light of the death of God and man and...

For Derrida, death is a border that has no borders, resembling God, and is thus an aporia. Derrida...

Foucault thinks language according to a movement, which appears repeatedly in his writings, of simultaneous constituting and undoing,...

Derrida deconstructs hospitality and all acts of welcoming by exposing them to their own impossibilities, that is, by...

Foucault’s archeology is, according to Foucault, an archeology of knowledge. Knowledge is that toward which the archeological activity...

For Derrida, an event truly worthy of the name must be irruptive, unforeseeable, and incalculable, bordering on incomprehension...

The supplement and its processes appear frequently in the writings of Derrida, but Of Grammatology is where this...

For Derrida, a decision that is truly worthy of its name takes place only by passing through the...

Poststructuralism passes through Freud’s thinking-theorizing in its disrupting of metaphysics, yet this passing transforms that through which it...

The German word that Heidegger uses is Befindlichkeit, which does not mean ‘mood’, but rather ‘how one finds...

Nietzsche says that since there is no meaning awaiting there to be found, we always invent that for...

Perhaps it all began in Nietzsche’s philosophy; or perhaps the origin is very far from Nietzsche, yet it...

Every part of the postmodern city is multiple and other. The city is a discontinuity lacking any unity;...

Foucault thinks the breaking up of history into fragments, and introduces a difference between histories of continuities and...