Problematization in Foucault's Genealogy and Deleuze's Symptomatology

Or, How to Study Sexuality Without Invoking Oppositions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3774331
AutoresColin Koopman (0000-0003-0354-7522, Department of Philosophy University of Oregon Susan Campbell Hall Room 250A Eugene, OR 97403 USA)
Año2018
Volumen23
Número2
Páginas187-204
Fecha de publicación2018-03-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAngelaki (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0969725x.2018.1451583
OpenAlexW2797261719
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas18

The work of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze frequently gave rise to a practice of philosophy as a form of critical problematization. Critical problematization both resonates between their thought and is also generative for contemporary philosophy in their wake. To examine critical problematization in each, a shared theme of inquiry provides a useful focal point. Foucault and Deleuze each deployed critical problematization in the context of studies of sexuality, a site of excited contestation that remains as crucial for us today as it was for them four decades ago. Foucault's well-known History of Sexuality, Volume 1 and Deleuze's little-discussed text Coldness and Cruelty thus provide us with exemplary instances of the critical problematization of sexuality. An examination of these two texts, and their broader resonance, illuminates the potential of Foucauldian genealogy and Deleuzian symptomatology as methods for critical problematization today. It is argued that they provide compelling alternatives to modern critical moods that would want to interpret sexuality through a series of oppositions

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Problematization · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophy and Social Theory · Psychology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy