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Michel Foucault and his Histories of Sexuality

Aylon Cohen

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One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault's work continues to exercise extraordinary influence across the humanities and social sciences. First published in 1976, the first volume of The History of Sexuality fundamentally changed how we approach questions of political power, history, sexuality, truth, the subject, and resistance, to name just a few. Thirty-four years after his death in 1984, the fourth and final volume of Foucault's historical study of sexuality was published in French in 2018 and translated into English in 2021. To mark this event and seeming closure of Foucault's studies, this seminar focuses on a close reading of Foucault's four volume study of The History of Sexuality. In this seminar we will examine the historical emergence of this thing we call "sexuality" as narrated across Foucault's studies and we will investigate why Foucault considered the history of sexuality a privileged example through which to elaborate a new conception of political power, the history of the state, an ethics of the self, and new possibilities of theorizing resistance to contemporaneity forms of domination. For an introductory overview to the seminar and the questions Foucault proposes to cover over the course of his studies, please read Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. I: An Introduction (New York: Random House, 1978), Part 1: “We ‘Other Victorians’,” pages 3-13. Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Di, 12:00 - 14:00 14 Termine

Di, 16.04.2024 12:00 - 14:00

Dozenten:
Aylon Cohen