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Edward Said and Michel Foucault: Representation of the Notion of Discourse in Colonial Discourse Theory

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

Foucauldian Reading of Gholam Hossein Saedi's An Eye for an Eye

AbstractThe present paper seeks to investigate how power relations work in Saedi’s An Eye for an Eye and how discursive formation of justice brings the conflicts of the play to resolution. Foucault believes that power and knowledge create each other reciprocally. This creation happens within a domain of relationships in which discursive statements are voiced alongside and against each other. Tr...

Governmentality and the genealogy of politicsI

The article offers a series of reflections on the presentation of a phase of work by Michel Foucault and some of his co-researchers in the volume The Foucault Effect: studies in governmentality (1991), co-edited by the author. These reflections fall into three parts. First, there is a review of some important aspects of Foucault’s ‘governmentality’ lectures that, due to different reasons, were ...

Bernard E. Harcourt Post-Modern Meditations on Punishment: On the Limits of Reason and the Virtues of Randomization (A Polemic and Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century)

in an essay bearing the same title, michel foucault read kant’s text against the backdrop of his critique of reason, published just three years earlier. It is precisely at the moment that we assert ourselves as mature beings, Foucault observed, that it is most important to recognize the limits of reason. “It is precisely at this moment that the critique is necessary, since its role is that of d...

The Essential Works of Michel Foucault