Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: There have been three distinct waves of Foucault scholarship in the Anglo-Saxon world, reflecting phases of interpretation and translation of texts.The initial phase of reception from the late 1970s and early 1980s marked the first conceptual reception outside France, across French studies, philosophy, history, sociology and political theory.The second wave, 10 years after his death, was linked to the publication of Dits et écrits in 1994. 1 The publishing market explosion of books on Foucault and the interdisciplinary celebration of his work, which marked this wave, were in part stimulated by the theoretical links established within feminist theory, cultural studies and queer theory.Here there was also a fascination across the humanities and social sciences as Foucault became a hallmark of contemporary theory.The third on-going phase is the reading and reception of Foucault's Collège de France lectures at the beginning of the 21 st century and an appreciation of how the lectures and the "late Foucault" critically enhance the understanding of Foucault's main corpus of writing.What is striking about Clare O'Farrell's scholarship is that her work is prominent in all of the successive waves of study -and arguably marks out some of its very shape.With her first work, Michel Foucault: Historian or Philosopher, 2 she was at the forefront of studies attempting to translate Foucault's conceptual language for the disciplinary apparatus of his Englishspeaking critics.In her edited -and yet to be fully appreciated -collection Foucault: The Legacy 3 she brought together a diverse range of cultural engagements with Foucault's work; and, importantly, reported her own interview with Foucault in November 1981.Her present work Michel Foucault 4 while displaying a very different style and tone from the other studies, carries forward the third phase by integrating the Collège de France 1
Source: Foucault Studies
DOI: 10.22439/fs.v0i4.899
Author: Jeremy Carrette
Institution: University of Kent
Language: English
Topic: Foucault, Power, and Ethics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1503053763