Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism

David Scott is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Philosophy Program at Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Originally trained as a fine arts painter, he holds a doctorate in Literature from the University of Virginia and a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. He is the author of Gilbert Simondon's Psychic and Collective Individuation (2014), along with several published articles and chapters on Bergson, Heidegger, Deleuze, and Merleau-Ponty, and translator of Deleuze’s first published work on Hume’s philosophy. Scott publishes on intersections of art and philosophy, as well as on race and social and political theory.

Series Preface
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Foucault's Modernisms
David Scott, Coppin State University, USA

Part 1. Conceptualizing Foucault
1. The Origin of Parresia in Foucault’s Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of Madness
Leonard Lawlor and Daniel J. Palumbo, Penn State University, USA
2. The Secret of the Corpse-Language Machine: The Birth of the Clinic and Raymond Roussel
David Scott, Coppin State University, USA
3. Intersections of the Concept and Literature in TheOrder of Things: Foucault and Canguilhem
Samuel Talcott, University of the Sciences, USA
4. Archeology of Knowledge: Foucault and the Time of Discourse
Heath Massey, Beloit University, USA
5. Carceral, Capital, Power: The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment in Discipline and Punish
Christopher Penfield, Purdue University, USA
6. Foucault’s History of Sexuality
Chloë Taylor, University of Alberta, Canada

Part 2. Foucault and Aesthetics
7. Technologies of Modernism: Historicism in Foucault and Dos Passos
Christopher Breu, Illinois State University, USA
8. Thought as Spirituality in Raymond Roussel
Ann Burlein, Hofstra University, USA
9. Life Escaping: Foucault, Vitalism, and Gertrude Stein’s Life-Writing
Sarah Posman, Ghent University, Belgium
10. The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Painting
Joseph Tanke, University of Hawaii, USA
11. The Hermaphroditic Image: Modern Art, Thought and Expérience in Michel Foucault
Nicole Ridgway, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Part 3. Glossary
Archaeology
Heath Massey, Beloit College, USA
The "Author-Function"
Seth Forrest, Coppin State University, USA
Biopower
Chloë Taylor, University of Alberta, Canada
Discipline
Steve Tammelleo, University of San Diego, USA
Episteme
Samuel Talcott, University of the Sciences, USA
Genealogy
Brad Elliot Stone, Loyola Marymount University, USA
Power
Brad Elliot Stone, Loyola Marymount University, USA
Problematization
Daniele Lorenzini, University Paris-Est Créteil, France
Transgression
Janae Scholtz, Alvernia University, USA
Truth
Marc De Kesel, Saint Paul University, Canada
Subjectivation
Mark Murphy, University of Glasgow, UK

Notes on Contributors
Index