Paul Patton
Biographic Data
| ID | 111550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Patton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Patton |
| SIGNATURE | PATTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9005-2095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
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Nietzsche’s Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy
Women, Power and Truth: Response to Vanessa Lemm, Homo Natura: Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics
Deconstruction and Nothingness: Deliberation, Daoism, and Derrida on Decision
This article traces a connection between the Daoist conception of nothingness and democratic deliberation by way of Derrida's deconstructive analysis of decision. Analysis of the aporia(s) at the heart of decision is a recurrent feature of Derrida's later work and, I argue, this highlights the function of nothingness in the act of decision. After identifying convergences between Derridean deconstruction and the Daodejing relating to the constitut…
Translating Difference and Repetition
Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics
Book Roundtable
Discussion text: Chin, C. 2018. The Practice of Political Theory: Rorty and Continental Thought. New York, Columbia University Press. Respondents: Lasse Thomassen (Introduction), Joe Hoover (Reconstructing Rorty? Between Irony and Seriousness), David Owen (Practices of Political Theory), Paul Patton (Rorty’s ‘Continental’ Interlocutors), Clayton Chin (Rorty’s Pragmatic Political Theory: On Continental Thought and Ontology)
Liberalism and Its Future
This volume collects ten essays, mostly published over the previous decade, dealing with the diverse relationships between liberalism and the British Empire. Their overriding ambition is “to probe
The Reception and Evolution of Foucault's Political Philosophy
With the benefit of the complete publication of Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, the reception of his work by political philosophers in the English-speaking world during the late 1970s and early 1980s appears extremely confused.This reception was based on the English translations of work published in the mid-1970s, chiefly Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality Volume One, along with collections of interviews from the sam…
Round Table Discussion with Lynne Huffer, Steven Ogden, Paul Patton, and Jana Sawicki
Joanna Crosby and Dianna Taylor: The theme of this special section of Foucault Studies, “Foucauldian Spaces,” emerged out of the 2016 meeting of the Foucault Circle, where the four of you were participants. Each of the three individual papers contained in the special section critically deploys and/or reconceptualizes an aspect of Foucault’s work that engages and offers particular insight into the construction, experience, and utilization of space…
Foucault: From Socrates to the Present
This chapter examines Michel Foucault's approach to the history of systems of thought, which relied upon a distinctive concept of discourse he defined in terms of rules governing the production of statements in a given empirical field at a given time. The study of these rules formed the basis of Foucault's archaeology of knowledge. The chapter first considers Foucault's conception of philosophy as the critique of the present before explaining how…
Foucault’s Subject of Power
Criticism of Foucault returns constantly to two themes: first, his descriptive analyses of power provide us with no criteria for judgment, no basis upon which to condemn some regimes of power as oppressive or to applaud others as involving progress in human freedom. Perhaps because Foucault’s writings during the 1970s tended to employ a language of bodies and forces in place of the traditional terminology of political critique. Power relations we…
Philosophical justifications for Indigenous rights
Indigenous rights are legal and extra-legal rights attributed to Indigenous people's who, as a consequence of colonization or other circumstances, live under the authority of sovereign states not instituted by them. From a philosophical perspective, the nature and basis of Indigenous rights remain a matter of dispute: are they moral rights, political rights or simply positive rights enshrined or destined to be enshrined in law? One response is to…
Archaic Period Domesticated Plants in the Mid-Ohio Valley
Late Archaic archaeobotanical remains from the County Home site (33AT40), southeastern Ohio, are described. Measurements of chenopod (Chenopodium berlandieri) seed-coat thicknesses and marshelder (Iva annua) achene and kernel lengths from the site are indicative of domesticated types (ssp. jonesianum and var. macrocarpa, respectively) dating to ca. 3000 B.P. to 3600 B.P. Together, these specimens represent some of the earliest evidence of plant d…
Archaic Period Domesticated Plants in the Mid-Ohio Valley: Archaeobotanical Remains from the County Home Site (33at40), Southeastern Ohio
Late Archaic archaeobotanical remains from the County Home site (33AT40), southeastern Ohio, are described. Measurements of chenopod (Chenopodium berlandieri) seed-coat thicknesses and marshelder (Iva annua) achene and kernel lengths from the site are indicative of domesticated types (ssp. jonesianum and var. macrocarpa, respectively) dating to ca. 3000 B.P. to 3600 B.P. Together, these specimens represent some of the earliest evidence of plant d…
Government, rights and legitimacy: Foucault and liberal political normativity
One way to characterise the difference between analytic and Continental political philosophy concerns the different roles played by normative and descriptive analysis in each case. This article argues that, even though Michel Foucault’s genealogy of liberal and neoliberal governmentality and John Rawls’s political liberalism involve different articulations of normative and descriptive concerns, they are complementary rather than antithetical to o…
Postmodernism: Philosophical Aspects
Political legitimacy
These comments take issue with two aspects of the treatment of Rawls in On The People's Terms. First, I criticize the characterization of Rawls as downplaying political liberties and focusing instead on social justice. Second, I take issue with the claim that Pettit provides a more robust conception of legitimacy than Rawls. The basis for this claim is that Rawls, along with others in the Kantian tradition, downplays the question of legitimacy by…
Nietzsche on Power and Democracy circa 1876–1881
As I was Saying in Berlin
This conversation, in an earlier version, opened the ‘Framing Lives’ conference held in July 2012 at the Australian National University in Canberra. Here the writer and academic, Antjie Krog, and the philosopher and academic, Paul Patton, continue the conversations they started in Berlin in 2007 (these were published in Krog's non-fiction text, Begging to Be Black, 2009). In this reprised dialogue, Krog and Patton reflect both on the Berlin conve…
Foucault and the Strategic Model of Power
Allen criticizes Foucault for having a “narrow and impoverished conception of social interaction, according to which all such interaction is strategic.” I challenge this claim, partly on the basis of comments by Foucault which explicitly acknowledge and in some cases endorse forms of non-strategic interaction, but more importantly on the basis of the significant changes in Foucault’s concept of power that he elaborated in lectures from 1978 onwar…
Sovereignty Conditioned and Unconditioned
Sovereignty Conditioned and Unconditioned Paul Patton (bio) The publication of lectures inevitably raises questions about their place in the “work” of the author. How do these lectures relate to Derrida’s published works and what status should they be accorded within the corpus of his work? It is apparent that they are not texts fully worked up for publication, although some parts of them were published. As successive sessions within a year-long …
From Resistance to Government: Foucault's Lectures 1976–1979
Interviews formed an integral part of Foucault's work alongside and complementary to the published works. It is primarily in interviews that he elaborates on the implications of his historical studies for thinking about the problems raised by social and political movements. Like his published books, Foucault's lectures sought to engage with the social, political, and intellectual present in which they were presented. In this sense, they are close…
Foucault's 'Critique' of Neoliberalism, Rawls and the Genealogy of Public Reason
Foucault devotes seven out of the twelve lectures he delivered at the Collège de France in 1979 to German and American neo-liberalism. Contrary to the widespread view that the purpose of these lectures was to ‘critique’ neoliberalism, I sketch another reading of those lectures that connects them with a different kind of critique of liberal political reason that we find in the work of John Rawls. I begin by showing that Foucault is more normative …
Considerations on Marxism, Phenomenology and Power. Interview with Michel Foucault; Recorded on April 3rd, 1978
Political theory and the rights of indigenous peoples
Taylor and Foucault on Power and Freedom
Metamorpho-Logic: Bodies and Powers inA Thousand Plateaus
L'A. analyse «Mille plateaux» de Deleuze et Guattari, dont la structure meme reflete le contenu: divers et stratifie. Par l'idee d'assemblage, l'A. analyse principalement la theorie des corps (organismes vivants), et ce qu'il considere comme le tout du livre, la theorie du pouvoir
"Conceptual Politics and the War-Machine in "Mille Plateaux
In an interview published at the same time as Mille Plateaux, Deleuze described his work with Guattari as nothing but philosophy, in the traditional sense of the word.' By that he means a quite specific activity of conceptual creation: to philosophize is to invent new concepts. The understanding of concepts, however, is far from traditional. These are described as singularities, elsewhere as lines or intensities, which react upon the flow of ever…
The World Seen From Within: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Events
Concept and event
Considerations on Marxism, Phenomenology and Power. Interview with Michel Foucault; Recorded on April 3rd, 1978
Deleuze and Democracy
Foucault, Critique and Rights
This paper outlines Foucault's genealogical conception of critique and argues that it is not inconsistent with his appeals to concepts of right so long as these are under stood in terms of his historical and naturalistic approach to rights. This approach is explained by reference to Nietzsche's account of the origins of rights and duties and the example of Aboriginal rights is used to exemplify the historical character of rights understood as int…
Historic Injustice and the Possibility of Supersession1
This paper examines the reasoning behind Jeremy Waldron's influential thesis concerning the possibility of the supersession of historical injustice. It argues that Waldron establishes only the possibility that distributions of property brought about by unjust acts may become just distributions in certain limited circumstances. It argues further that it is not clear that the circumstances of colonisation in Australia meet the relevant criteria and…
Le sujet de pouvoir chez Foucault
Les critiques de Foucault ne cessent de souligner l'absence de critères normatifs dans son œuvre et ils fondent ce reproche sur l'absence de toute conception du sujet. Contrairement à de telles interprétations, je soutiens que l'œuvre de Foucault présuppose un concept de la matière humaine sur laquelle le pouvoir s'exerce ou qui exerce un pouvoir sur elle-même. Cette matière humaine doit être comprise sous l'angle du pouvoir, dans le sens premier…
Derrida, Politics and Democracy to Come
Derrida's early reluctance to spell out political implications of deconstruction gave way during the course of the 1980s to a series of analyses of political concepts and issues. This article identifies the principal intellectual strategies of Derrida's political engagements and provides a detailed account of his concept of 'democracy to come'. Finally, it suggests several points of contact between Derrida and recent liberal political philosophy,…
Foucault and the Strategic Model of Power
Allen criticizes Foucault for having a “narrow and impoverished conception of social interaction, according to which all such interaction is strategic.” I challenge this claim, partly on the basis of comments by Foucault which explicitly acknowledge and in some cases endorse forms of non-strategic interaction, but more importantly on the basis of the significant changes in Foucault’s concept of power that he elaborated in lectures from 1978 onwar…
Mabo, freedom and the politics of difference
This paper attempts to demonstrate the applicability of certain themes from post‐structuralist theory to issues raised by the Mabo judgment and the subsequent debate over native title. It outlines some common features of a post‐structuralist conception of society, commenting particularly on conceptions of freedom and the shared concern with difference. It then shows how questions of difference and identity raised by Mabo may be described in post‐…
Government, rights and legitimacy: Foucault and liberal political normativity
One way to characterise the difference between analytic and Continental political philosophy concerns the different roles played by normative and descriptive analysis in each case. This article argues that, even though Michel Foucault’s genealogy of liberal and neoliberal governmentality and John Rawls’s political liberalism involve different articulations of normative and descriptive concerns, they are complementary rather than antithetical to o…
Life, Legitimation and Government
Reconciliation, Aboriginal rights and constitutional paradox inAustralia
(2001). Reconciliation, Aboriginal rights and constitutional paradox in Australia. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 15, Writing Against Legal Racism: Law and Literature Explorations, pp. 25-40
Strange Proximity: Deleuze et Derrida dans les parages du concept
Archaic Period Domesticated Plants in the Mid-Ohio Valley: Archaeobotanical Remains from the County Home Site (33at40), Southeastern Ohio
Late Archaic archaeobotanical remains from the County Home site (33AT40), southeastern Ohio, are described. Measurements of chenopod (Chenopodium berlandieri) seed-coat thicknesses and marshelder (Iva annua) achene and kernel lengths from the site are indicative of domesticated types (ssp. jonesianum and var. macrocarpa, respectively) dating to ca. 3000 B.P. to 3600 B.P. Together, these specimens represent some of the earliest evidence of plant d…
The translation of indigenous land into property: The mere analogy of English jurisprudence
(2000). The translation of indigenous land into property: the mere analogy of English jurisprudence... Parallax: Vol. 6, Translator's Ink, pp. 25-38
Social (media) events from a Deleuzian point of view
(1997). Social (media) events from a Deleuzian point of view. Continuum: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 23-32
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event a virtual war.Patton s introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order
Round Table Discussion with Lynne Huffer, Steven Ogden, Paul Patton, and Jana Sawicki
Joanna Crosby and Dianna Taylor: The theme of this special section of Foucault Studies, “Foucauldian Spaces,” emerged out of the 2016 meeting of the Foucault Circle, where the four of you were participants. Each of the three individual papers contained in the special section critically deploys and/or reconceptualizes an aspect of Foucault’s work that engages and offers particular insight into the construction, experience, and utilization of space…
Political legitimacy
These comments take issue with two aspects of the treatment of Rawls in On The People's Terms. First, I criticize the characterization of Rawls as downplaying political liberties and focusing instead on social justice. Second, I take issue with the claim that Pettit provides a more robust conception of legitimacy than Rawls. The basis for this claim is that Rawls, along with others in the Kantian tradition, downplays the question of legitimacy by…
The Taber Well Site (33HO611): A Middle Woodland Habitation and Surplus Lithic Production Site in the Hocking Valley, Southeastern Ohio
From ca. 1500 B.C. through A.D. 300, small indigenous communities in southeastern Ohio incrementally increased their population size, adopted a more sedentary lifeway within recognized territories, formalized the burial of select individuals in mounds, and supplemented their hunting and gathering economy with gardening. Data from the Taber Well site (33HO611) are presented, from which we infer that surplus lithic production was taking place at th…
Michel Foucault: Power, Truth, Strategy
"Conceptual Politics and the War-Machine in "Mille Plateaux
In an interview published at the same time as Mille Plateaux, Deleuze described his work with Guattari as nothing but philosophy, in the traditional sense of the word.' By that he means a quite specific activity of conceptual creation: to philosophize is to invent new concepts. The understanding of concepts, however, is far from traditional. These are described as singularities, elsewhere as lines or intensities, which react upon the flow of ever…
Michel Foucault: The Ethics of an Intellectual
Taylor and Foucault on Power and Freedom
Nietzsche, Feminism and Political Theory
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Nietzsche, Feminism and Political Theory. Edited By Paul Patton. (London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xiii + 247. Price £35.00 h/b, £12.99 p/b.) Brian Domino Brian Domino Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 398–400, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219626 Published: 01 July 1994
Metamorpho-Logic: Bodies and Powers inA Thousand Plateaus
L'A. analyse «Mille plateaux» de Deleuze et Guattari, dont la structure meme reflete le contenu: divers et stratifie. Par l'idee d'assemblage, l'A. analyse principalement la theorie des corps (organismes vivants), et ce qu'il considere comme le tout du livre, la theorie du pouvoir
Post-structuralism and the Mabo Debate: Difference, Society and Justice
Traditional concepts of justice are challenged in this collection of essays exploring biculturalism and difference. The ways we approach questions of sovereignty, governance and democracy are fully debated.
Nietzsche and the Women's Question
Mabo and Australian Society: Towards a Postmodern Republic
Mabo, freedom and the politics of difference
This paper attempts to demonstrate the applicability of certain themes from post‐structuralist theory to issues raised by the Mabo judgment and the subsequent debate over native title. It outlines some common features of a post‐structuralist conception of society, commenting particularly on conceptions of freedom and the shared concern with difference. It then shows how questions of difference and identity raised by Mabo may be described in post‐…
Mabo and Australian Society: Towards a Postmodern Republic
Strange Proximity: Deleuze et Derrida dans les parages du concept
Concept and event
Deleuze: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Readers)
Political Theory: Tradition and Diversity
Political theory has expanded, diversified, and, some would argue, fragmented. This 1997 book presents work from leading scholars in various fields and reflects key debates in political theory. Its summary discussions will ensure it becomes a key text in political theory courses. Skillfully edited by Andrew Vincent, the book includes such topics as the relationship between history and theory; utilitarianism and rational choice; republicanism; mul…
Social (media) events from a Deleuzian point of view
(1997). Social (media) events from a Deleuzian point of view. Continuum: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 23-32
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event a virtual war.Patton s introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order
The World Seen From Within: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Events
Justice and Difference: Response to Crowder
Political theory and the rights of indigenous peoples
The translation of indigenous land into property: The mere analogy of English jurisprudence
(2000). The translation of indigenous land into property: the mere analogy of English jurisprudence... Parallax: Vol. 6, Translator's Ink, pp. 25-38
Reconciliation, Aboriginal rights and constitutional paradox inAustralia
(2001). Reconciliation, Aboriginal rights and constitutional paradox in Australia. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 15, Writing Against Legal Racism: Law and Literature Explorations, pp. 25-40
Nietzsche, Feminism and Political Theory
Deleuze and the Political
With clarity, precision and economy, Paul Patton synthesizes the full range of Deleuze's work. He interweaves with great dexterity motifs that extend from his early works, such as Nietzsche and Philosophy, to the more recent What is Philosophy? and his key works such as Anti-Oedipus and Difference and Repetition. Throughout, Deleuze and the Political demonstrates Deleuze's relevance to theoretical and practical concerns in a number of disciplines…
Le sujet de pouvoir chez Foucault
Les critiques de Foucault ne cessent de souligner l'absence de critères normatifs dans son œuvre et ils fondent ce reproche sur l'absence de toute conception du sujet. Contrairement à de telles interprétations, je soutiens que l'œuvre de Foucault présuppose un concept de la matière humaine sur laquelle le pouvoir s'exerce ou qui exerce un pouvoir sur elle-même. Cette matière humaine doit être comprise sous l'angle du pouvoir, dans le sens premier…
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