Foucault on Drugs: The Personal, the Ethical and the Political in Foucault in California
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Review Essay on: Simeon Wade, Foucault in California [A True Story – Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death], foreword by Heather Dundas. (Berkeley, California: Heyday, 2019). 144 pp, ISBN 9781597144636 (hardback).
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Wade, Simeon, Foucault in California [A True Story – Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]. California: Heyday, 2019.
Dundas, Heather, “Foreword,” in Foucault in California [A True Story – Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death], vii-xviii. California: Heyday, 2019.
Elden, Stuart, “The Problem of Confession: The Productive Failure of Foucault’s History of Sexuality,” Journal for Cultural Research 9:1 (2005), 23-41.
Elden, Stuart, Foucault’s Last Decade. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016. dx.doi.org/10.1080/1479758042000331925.
Eribon, Didier, Michel Foucault [1989], translated by Betsy Wing. London: Faber and Faber, 1991.
Foucault, Michel, “Truth, Power, Self: An Interview with Michel Foucault,” in Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault, ed. Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Pat-rick H. Hutton, 9-15. London: Tavistock Publications, 1988.
Foucault, Michel, “The Minimalist Self,” in Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman, 3-16. London: Routledge, 1990.
Foucault, Michel, “Practicing Criticism,” in Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman, 152-156. London: Routledge, 1990.
Foucault, Michel, “Social Security,” in Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman, 159-177. London: Routledge, 1990.
Foucault, Michel, “An Ethics of Pleasure,” in Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961-1984, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, 371-381. New York: Semiotext(e), 1996.
Foucault, Michel, “Sex, Power and the Politics of Identity,” in Foucault Live: Collected Inter-views, 1961-1984, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, 382-390. New York: Semiotext(e), 1996.
Foucault, Michel, “The Simplest of Pleasures,” in Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961-1984, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, 295-297. New York: Semiotext(e), 1996.
Foucault, Michel, “An Interview by Stephen Riggins,” in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: The Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 Volume 1, ed. Paul Rabinow, 121-133. New York: The New Press, 1997.
Foucault, Michel, “The Ethics of the Concern for Self as a Practice of Freedom,” in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: The Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 Volume 1, ed. Paul Rab-inow, 281-301. New York: The New Press, 1997.
Foucault, Michel, “Pierre Boulez, Passing through the Screen,” in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 Volume 2, ed. James D. Faubion, 241-244. New York: The New Press, 1998.
Foucault, Michel, “Theatrum Philosophicum,” in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Es-sential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 Volume 2, ed. James D. Faubion, 343-368. New York: The New Press, 1998.
Foucault, Michel, “Interview with Michel Foucault,” in Power: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984, Volume 3, ed. James D. Faubion, 239-297. New York: The New Press, 2000.
Foucault, Michel, The Archaeology of Knowledge [1969], translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. London: Routledge, 2002.
Foucault, Michel, Death and the Labyrinth. London: Continuum, 2004.
Foucault, Michel, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège De France 1981-1982, ed. Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Graham Burchell. New York: Picador, 2005.
Foucault, Michel, Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite [1978], trans. Richard McDougall. New York: Vintage Books, 2013.
Gautam, Sanjay K., Foucault and the Kamasutra: The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Gelb, Steven A., “‘Be Cruel!’ Dare We Take Foucault Seriously?,” Mental Retardation 38:4 (2000), 369-372. doi.org/10.1352/0047-6765(2000)038<0369:BCDWTF>2.0.CO;2.
Halperin, David M., Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Lezra, Jacques, “Foucault’s Perfection,” Contemporary Literature 35:3 (1994), 593-623. jstor.org/stable/1208698.
Macey, David, The Lives of Michel Foucault. London: Hutchinson, 1993.
Martin, Luther H., “The discourse of (Michel Foucault’s) life: A review essay,” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 7:1 (1995), 57-69. jstor.org/stable/23555529.
Marzoni, Andrew, “Foucault in the Valley of Death,” The Baffler 46 (July 2019), thebaf-fler.com/salvos/foucault-in-the-valley-of-death-marzoni.
McWhorter, Ladelle, “Foucault’s Political Spirituality,” Philosophy Today 47, supplement (2003), 39-44. 10.5840/philtoday200347Supplement6.
Miller, James, The Passion of Michel Foucault. London: Harper Collins, 1993.
Oksala, Johanna, Foucault on Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Penner, James, “Blowing the Philosopher’s Fuses: Michel Foucault’s LSD Trip in the Valley of Death,” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 17, 2019, lareviewof-books.org/article/blowing-the-philosophers-fuses-michel-foucaults-lsd-trip-in-the-valley-of-death.
Simons, Jon, Foucault & the Political. London: Routledge, 1995.
Taylor, Chloë, The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault: A Genealogy of the ‘Confess-ing Animal’. London: Routledge, 2009.
Tran, Jonathan, Foucault and Theology. London: T&T Clark International, 2011.
Veyne, Paul, “The Final Foucault and His Ethics,” Critical Inquiry 20:1 (1993), 1-9.
Veyne, Paul, Foucault: His Thought, His Character [2008], trans. Janet Lloyd. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010.
Wade, Simeon and Heather Dundas, “Michel Foucault in Death Valley: A Boom interview with Simeon Wade,” Boom California, September 10, 2017, boomcalifor-nia.com/2017/09/10/michel-foucault-in-death-valley-a-boom-interview-with-simeon-wade.
Wade, Simeon, Foucault in California [A True Story – Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]. California: Heyday, 2019.
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Borg, K. (2020). Foucault on Drugs: The Personal, the Ethical and the Political in Foucault in California. Foucault Studies, (28), 142–164. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v1i28.6077
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