FOUCAULDIAN THEORY READING LIST

Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984):

• "What is Enlightenment?" (1984)

• "The Subject and Power" (1982)

• "Omnes et Singulatim: Toward a Critique of Political Reason" (1979)

• "Governmentality" (1978)

• "What is Critique?" (1978)

• The History of Sexuality: an Introduction (1976)

• "Two Lectures" (1976)

• Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison (1975)

• "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" (1971)

• "The Order of Discourse" [sometimes trans. as "The Discourse on Language"] (1970)

• The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)

• "What is an Author?" (1969)

• The Order of Things: an Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966)

• Madness and Civilization (1961)

Edward Said (1935 - 2003):

• "Narrative, Geography and Interpretation" (1990)
• "Third-World Intellectuals and Metropolitan Culture" (1990)
• "Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors" (1989)
• "Orientalism Reconsidered" (1985)
• "Secular Criticism" (1983)
• "Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community" (1982)
• "Traveling Theory" (1982)
• Orientalism: Western Representations of the Orient (1978)
• "The Problem of Textuality: Two Exemplary Positions" (1978) [revised version entitled "Criticism Between Culture and System" in The World, The Text and the Critic]
• "On Repetition" (1976)
• "Roads Taken and not Taken in Contemporary Criticism" (1976)
• Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975)

• "The Text, the World, the Critic" (1975)

• "On Originality" (1973)

• "The Text as Practice and as Idea" (1973)

• "Abecedarium Culturae: Structuralism, Absence, Writing, Statement, Discourse, Archaeology, Structuralism" (1971)

• "Linguistics and the Archaeology of Mind" (1971)

• "What is Beyond Formalism?" (1971)

Ian Hacking (1936 - ):

• "Historical Ontology" (1999)

• "'Style' for Historians and Philosophers" (1992)

• "Two Kinds of New Historicism for Philosophers" (1989-1990)

• "Five Parables" (1985)

• "Language, Truth and Reason" (1982)

Giorgio Agamben (1942 - ):

• Homo sacer (3 Vols.) (1995-)

Timothy Reiss (1942 - ):

• The Meaning of Literature (1992)

• The Discourse of Modernism (1982)

Stephen Greenblatt (1943 - ):

• Shakespearean Negotiations: the Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (1988): Chapter 1 "The Circulation of Social Energy"

• "Towards a Poetics of Culture" (1986)

• Renaissance Self-Fashioning: from More to Shakespeare (1980): Introduction

Nikolas Rose (1947 - ):

• "Assembling Our Selves" (1996)

• "How Should One Do the History of the Self?" (1996)

• "Authority and the Genealogy of the Subject" (1995)

• "A Critical History of Psychology" (1995)

• "Expertise and the Techne of Psychology" (1992)

• Governing the Soul: the Shaping of the Private Self (1989)

• "Psychology as 'Social' Science" (1989)

• "Psychology as an Individualising Technology" (1988)

• "Psychiatry: the Discipline of Mental Health" (1986)

• "Michel Foucault and the Study of Psychology" (1985)

Simon During (1950 - ):

• Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing (1992)

Richard Terdiman ( - ):

• Discourse / Counter-Discourse: the Theory of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth Century France (1985)

Dieter Freundlieb ( - ):

• "Foucault and the Study of Literature" (1995)