Foucault Against Himself

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In his private life as well as in his work and his politics Michel Foucault often stood in contradiction to himself, especially when his expansive ideas collided with the institutions in which he worked. In Fran ois Caillat's provocative collection of essays and interviews based on his documentary of the same name, leading contemporary critics and philosophers reframe Foucault's legacy in an effort to build new ways of thinking about his struggle against society's mechanisms of domination, demonstrating how self-conflict lies at the heart of Foucault's life and work.

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Michel Foucault is one of the great exemplars of an intellectual never content to rest with the resolutions at which he arrives from one moment to the next. He charts a discernable path from start to finish, but a path that regularly folds back on itself, corrects its wrong turns and takes new substantive directions as the quest for a continuous transformation of himself through his work compels him to do. Foucault against himself: if we heed his precedent, we might avoid falling into the hollow and blind abyss into which the intellectually complacent almost always fall. --Prof. James D. Faubion, Rice University and editor of Foucault Now

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Franois Caillat: Franois Caillat is a filmmaker. He has taught philosophy, and made a number of documentaries, including works on Nobel Prize-winning French author J.M.G. Le Clzio and feminist writer Julia Kristeva. His documentary Foucault contre lui-mme was broadcast in France in 2014.
Leo Bersani: Leo Bersani's career spans more than 50 years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies and queer theory. His books include Homos.
Georges Didi-Huberman: Georges Didi-Huberman is a French philosopher and art historian. His books include The Invention of Hysteria and Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz.
Arlette Farge: Arlette Farge Is a French historian and the author of The Allure of the Archives.
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie: Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is a philosopher based in Paris. His books include La dernire leon de Michel Foucault.