(see next page for abstract) ∗Acknowledgements: this research forms part of the European Commission TMR network project on "Financial Market Efficiency and Economic Efficiency," grant contract no. FMRXCT96-0054. I thank Julian Franks and a referee for detailed comments on the previous draft, and Margaret Bray and Thierry Foucault for discussions on an earlier version of this paper.

Although Michel Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche is involved in the reasoning of this essay, this paper does not deal with the topics most philosophers focus their attention on when they praise or severely criticize Foucault’s so-called “Nietzscheanism.” As a matter of fact, Foucault made rather scholarly use of Nietzsche. By “scholarly” I mean that he did not celebrate à la française, the famou...

According to Foucault, Descartes and then Locke would have created a sort of disenchantment, Entzauberung in Max Weber’s sense, of the value of truth. Before Descartes and Locke, theoretical wisdom went hand in hand with practical wisdom and virtue. After them, the norms of knowledge, or epistemic norms, can have all sorts of origins: they can be based on natural facts, or created by language, ...

Bu makalede; Fransız sosyolog ve filozof Michel Foucault’nun ürettiği temel kavramlar olan özne, öznenin ölümü, benlik, iktidar, iktidar türleri (mutlak disipline edici biyo-iktidar), ceza, söylem, bilginin arkeolojisi, soykütük, dispositif, arşiv episteme ele alınmaktadır. Ayrıca, ile beden ilişkileri, tahakküm ilişkileri incelenmektedir. değerlendirmeler içinde hem kendisinin post-yapısalcı o...

After an introduction on the role of colonial medicine in India, each of the following essays deals with a particular aspect of the subject. One takes up the role of British doctors in their assigned duty to protect the health of British soldiers on one hand and Indian prisoners on the other. Three deal with particular diseases-smallpox, cholera, and plague-chosen for the political controversy ...

From 1970 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault held the Chair of "History of Systems of Thought" at the Collège de France. In his public lectures delivered each Wednesday from early January through to the end of March/beginning of April, he reported on his research goals and findings, presenting unpublished material and new conceptual and theoretical research tools. Many of the ideas develo...

OVER THE LAST 20 years, historical research has increasingly employed concepts and ideas popularized by the writings of Michel Foucault. For example, many contemporary historians demonstrate familiarity with Foucauldian approaches to concepts like power, knowledge, and government and may eclectically incorporate into their work the analytical techniques of discourse analysis, genealogy, or mora...

MICHEL FOUCAULT'S Naissance de la clinique (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1963) makes a brilliant case for the sudden emergence in the late eighteenth century of the hospital clinic as the central concept and institution of Western medicine. Foucault's thesis, briefly stated, sees the birth of the clinic as an "essential mutation in medical knowledge" arising out of a general epistem...