Actu-Philosophia: Reviews on Michel Foucault
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Binswanger: Einführung in die probleme der allgemeinen psychologie (1922)
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Binswanger, Ludwig. Einführung in die probleme der allgemeinen psychologie. Berlin: Verlag Von Julius Springer, 1922.
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Michel Foucault (1965) - Philosophie et Psychologie, Filosofia y Psicologia
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In 1965, Alain Badiou interviewed Michel Foucault. The interview, intitled "Philosophie et Psychologie", was edited and later published in Dits et Écrits (french edition, vol. 1). Currently, the interview was published in youtube. The content of the interview, as can be viewed below, is different of the edited version on Dits et Écrits. Therefore is very usefull the consultation, that relieves new information regarding the subjects in question (relationships between psychology and philosophy), and several aspects of foucauldian thought, out of the edited and printed version.
En 1965, Alain Badiou a réalisé une entrevue avec Michel Foucault intitulé "Philosophie et Psycologie". L'entrevue a été éditée et publiée dans Dits et Écrits (vol. 1). Actuellement, il a été mis dans youtube. Le contenu de l'entrevue au-dessous est différent de la version éditée dans Dits et Écrits. Dans cette mode, voir l´entretien peut rendre des nouvelles informations concernant les sujets (philosophie et psychologie), et aussi aspects de la pensée de Foucaut absents dans l'édition imprimée.
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Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone “A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages”
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Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone. “A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages”. Wiley-Blackwell | 2003-03-03
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This comprehensive reference volume features essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field.
Provides a comprehensive “who’s who” guide to medieval philosophers.
Offers a refreshing mix of essays providing historical context followed by 140 alphabetically arranged entries on individual thinkers.
Constitutes an extensively cross-referenced and indexed source.
Written by a distinguished cast of philosophers.
Spans the history of medieval philosophy from the fourth century AD to the fifteenth century.
Quote of the day
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"They who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness"Read more...
John Milton
Mitchell S. Green - “Self-Expression”
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Mitchell S. Green “Self-Expression". Oxford University Press, USA
Mitchell S. Green presents a systematic philosophical study of self-expression - a pervasive phenomenon of the everyday life of humans and other species, which has received scant attention in its own right. He explores the ways in which self-expression reveals our states of thought, feeling,
and experience, and he defends striking new theses concerning a wide range of fascinating topics: our ability to perceive emotion in others, artistic expression, empathy, expressive language, meaning, facial expression, and speech acts. He draws on insights from evolutionary game theory, ethology,
the philosophy of language, social psychology, pragmatics, aesthetics, and neuroscience to present a stimulating and accessible interdisciplinary work.
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Sartre, J. P.: What is Literature? (1949)
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"If you want to engage yourself," writes a young imbecile, "what are you waiting for? Join the Communist Party." A great writer who engaged himself often and disengaged himself still more often, but who has forgotten, said to me, "The worst artists are the most engaged. Look at the Soviet painters" An old critic gently complained, "You want to murder literature. Contempt for belles-lettres is spread out insolently all through your review." A petty mind calls me pigheaded, which for him is evidently the highest insult. An author who barely crawled from one war to the other and whose name sometimes awakens languishing memories in old men accuses me of not being concerned with immortality; he knows, thank God, any number of people whose chief hope it is. In the eyes of an American hack-journalist the trouble with me is that I have not read Bergson or Freud; as for Flaubert, who did not engage himself, it seems that he haunts me like remorse. Smart-alecks wink at me, "And poetry? And painting? And music? You want to engage them, too?" And some martial spirits demand, "What's it all about? Engaged literature? Well, it's the old socialist realism, unless it's a revival of populism, only more aggressive."What nonsense. They read quickly, badly, and pass judgment before they have understood. So let's begin all over. This doesn't amuse anyone, neither you nor me. But we have to hit the nail on the head. And since critics condemn me in the name of literature without ever saying what they mean by that, the best answer to give them is to examine the art of writing without prejudice. What is writing? Why does one write? For whom? The fact is, it seems that nobody has ever asked himself these questions.
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Sartre, J. P. What is Literature? Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York, Philosophical Library, 1949 (on Archive.org).
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Mick Cooper: Heidegger, Binswanger and Boss on the begining of Daseinsanalyse
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Edmund Husserl: El Artículo “Fenomenología” de la Enciclopedia Británica
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«Fenomenología» designa un nuevo método descriptivo que hizo su aparición en la filosofía a principios de siglo y una ciencia apriórica que se desprende de él y que está destinada a suministrar el órgano fundamental para una filosofía rigurosamente científica y a posibilitar, en un desarrollo consecuente, una reforma metódica de todas las ciencias. Al mismo tiempo que esta fenomenología filosófica, pero sin distinguirse al principio de ella, surgió una nueva disciplina psicológica paralela a ella en cuanto al método y al contenido: la psicología apriórica pura o «psicología fenomenológica», la cual, con un afán reformador, pretende ser el fundamento metódico sobre el cual pueda por principio erigirse una psicología empírica científicamente rigurosa. La demarcación de esta fenomenología psicológica, más cercana al pensamiento natural, es quizá conveniente como introducción propedéutica para elevarnos a la comprensión de la fenomenología filosófica.
Mattar and Sá: The meanings of “analysis” and “analytics” in Heidegger’s thinking and its implications for psychotherapy
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Mattar, C. M; Sá, R. N. (2008) Os sentidos de “análise” e “analítica” no pensamento de Heidegger e suas implicações para a psicoterapia. Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia V8n2. Rio de Janeiro.This study deals with some of the main concepts of daseinsanalytical psychotherapy, inspired by the thinking of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. To fulfill this aim, it begins by expliciting the choice of the term “analytics” (Analytik) made by Heidegger in his piece Being and Time (1927) instead of “analysis” (Analyse). It points out the difference in meaning between both terms, highlighting the modern detachment from the original meaning of “analysis”, which reduces it to a decomposition of elements, in an analogy to Chemistry. However, analysis comes from the Greek analisein, which means the unweaving of a web, or freeing, releasing someone or something from his/its ties. The term analytics, used by Kant and resumed by Heidegger, does not lead to a disintegration of the phenomenon, but to its original character, to its meaning, its condition of possibility. Analytics weaves and unweaves to free the meaning that makes fabric possible, to catch a glimpse of the very activity of weaving and unweaving. This is the way through which Heidegger will understand analytics. Daseinsanalyse, the analysis of existence, is defined by him in Zollikon Seminars as the ontic exercise of ontological analysis carried out in Being and Time. It is possible, then, to think of Daseinsanalyse as the exercise of analytics in practice, which elaborates thematically the factual existence of the client, submitting it to its constitutive existential-ontological structures. This unweaving, guided by analysis, frees existing to all that summons it as an opening in meaning, helping it become present to all beings, including itself, through reflection. After presenting the ideas of two Swiss psychiatrists who established a relationship between Heidegger’s philosophy and practice, Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss, the article proposes some ways through which the psychotherapist can guide his/her attitudes according to Daseinsanalyse. Once the demands of existential suffering, addressed to psychotherapeutical practice, are more and more related to a historical leveling of meaning which can be accounted in the global figures of exploitation and consume, it is indispensable, so that psychotherapy can be a space for reflection which allows other ways of existing, that psychotherapy itself does not remain acritically subordinate to this same historical horizon of reducing meaning.
Keywords: Analytics, Analysis, Psychotherapeutical Practice, Daseinsanalyse.
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Etienne Gilson: Descartes et Harvey (1920)
Gilson, Etienne: Descartes et Harvey. Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger (Tome 90, 1920) Read more...
Zeljko Loparic: Binswanger, reader of Heidegger: a productive mistake?
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After presenting a brief analysis of the central ideas of Ludwig Binswanger contained in his seminal article "Dreaming and Existence", published in 1930, this paper examines the place of these ideas in Binswanger's theory of psychiatric daseinsanalysis. The next section is dedicated to the study of objections that Martin Heidegger raised against the use of existential analytics of Being and Time in framing psychiatric daseinsanalysis. The final section offers a brief discussion of perspectives for a renewed dialogue between Heidegger and human sciences, Winnicott's psychoanalysis in particular.Nat. hum. v.4 n.2 São Paulo dez. 2002 Read more...
Keywords: Existential analytics, Easeinsanalysis, Psychoanalysis, Binswanger, Heidegger.
Éric Mollet: Le projet de constitution européenne à la lumière de Foucault
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Texte complet dans l'excellent Labyrinthe:
Read more...Parti pour analyser la forme de gouvernementalité qui lui permettra de saisir le concept de biopolitique, Foucault s’attardera longuement dans son cours de 1979 sur le néolibéralisme qu’il décrira dans ses variantes allemande, américaine et française. Il n’est pas important ici de savoir si ce long détour par l’histoire contemporaine se soldera par un échec. Car, ce qui frappe avant tout, à la lecture de ce texte, c’est sa double actualité. Actuel, le cours de Foucault professé en 1979 l’est d’abord par les références qu’il fait à l’actualité politique immédiate, lorsqu’il est question de Raymond Barre ou de Valéry Giscard d’Estaing alors président de la République. Mais actuel, il l’est aussi, autrement. Naissance de la biopolitique a été publié en septembre 2004, soit huit mois avant le référendum pour la ratification du projet de Constitution européenne. Peu importe sa position au regard de l’ensemble de l’œuvre du philosophe, ce texte peut être utilisé comme une boîte à outils permettant non seulement de donner un éclairage particulier sur des thèmes, des éléments et des termes du projet de Constitution européenne, mais également d’y faire apparaître certaines zones d’ombre.
Ce que nous proposons ici, c’est d’utiliser le texte de Foucault et de le confronter au projet de Constitution européenne avec, en arrière fond, la question du devenir de la protection sociale en France.
Greek on Wikitionary
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ancient philosophy,
tools
There is a very usefull tool on Wikipedia, called Wikitionary. The user can found a lot of words in diferent languages, like several greek ancient words, writing with greek characters.
Foucault, Remarks on Marx : conversations with Duccio Trombadori
Michel Foucault, Remarks on Marx : conversations with Duccio Trombadori
Semiotext(e) | 1991 | ISBN 0936756330 | 187 Pages | PDF | 5.91 MB
A series of interviews with Foucault, translated from Italian and from French. The project began as an elucidation of Foucault's History of Sexuality, with hope of relating it to Italian feminism, but ended with a significantly greater scope.
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Searle, Derrida, Foucault (interview with Searle)
Reason, interviewing Searle:
Reason: You've debated Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida. Are they making bad arguments, or are they just being misread?
Searle: With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he's so obscure. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always says, "You misunderstood me." But if you try to figure out the correct interpretation, then that's not so easy. I once said this to Michel Foucault, who was more hostile to Derrida even than I am, and Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, "What the hell do you mean by that?" And he said, "He writes so obscurely you can't tell what he's saying, that's the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, 'You didn't understand me; you're an idiot.' That's the terrorism part." And I like that. So I wrote an article about Derrida. I asked Michel if it was OK if I quoted that passage, and he said yes.
Foucault was often lumped with Derrida. That's very unfair to Foucault. He was a different caliber of thinker altogether.
I think I sort of understand Richard Rorty's view, because I've talked to him more, and he's perfectly clearheaded in conversation. What Rorty would say is that he doesn't really deny that there's an external world. He thinks nobody denies that. What Rorty says is that we never really have objective knowledge of that reality. We ought to adopt a more pragmatic approach and think of what we call "truth" as what's useful to believe. So we shouldn't think of ourselves as answerable to an independently existing reality, though he wouldn't deny that there is such a thing.
The problem that all these guys have is that once you give me that first premise--that there is a reality that exists totally independently of us--then the other steps follow naturally. Step 1, external realism: You've got a real world that exists independently of human beings. And step 2: Words in the language can be used to refer to objects and states of affairs in that external reality. And then step 3: If 1 and 2 are right, then some organization of those words can state objective truth about that reality. Step 4 is we can have knowledge, objective knowledge, of that truth. At some point they have to resist that derivation, because then you've got this objectivity of knowledge and truth on which the Enlightenment vision rests, and that's what they want to reject.
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