Michel Senellart
Biographic Data
| ID | 1168022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michel Senellart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michel |
| FAMILY NAME | Senellart |
| SIGNATURE | SENELLART M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lyon 1 Université |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2213 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Séminaire de Michel Foucault du 17 mai 1979 au Collège de France
Ce texte est la retranscription du séminaire organisé le 17 mai 1979 par Michel Foucault, dans son bureau du Collège de France, autour de texte « Foucault révolutionne l’histoire » de Paul Veyne
Le dialogue Foucault-Veyne: Questions d’historiens, questions de philosophes
Cet article se propose d’examiner le rôle joué par l’essai de Paul Veyne, « Foucault révolutionne l’histoire », paru fin 1978, dans la reformulation par Michel Foucault de son rapport avec cette discipline, entre mai 1978, date de la table ronde avec des « historiens de métier », et 1980, date de la publication de celle-ci, profondément remaniée, dans le volume collectif L’impossible prison . Après avoir retracé la genèse du texte de Veyne et pré…
Le christianisme et l'aveu du désir
International audience
Une relecture critique de l'article de Kantorowicz, « Mystères de l'État: Un Concept Absolutiste Et Ses Origines Médiévales » (1955)
Dans un célèbre article publié en 1955, Ernst Kantorowicz avait entrepris de mettre en évidence les sources ecclésiologiques du concept de Mysteries of State. Son analyse, très largement acceptée, appelle cependant une relecture critique. Il convient, en premier lieu, de reconstituer la logique interne de son argumentation, afin de préciser le cadre et de montrer les limites de la thèse qu'il soutient. On verra que l'accent se déplace, très vite,…
À propos de Saeculum de Robert Markus
Le livre de Robert Markus, Saeculum : History and Society in the Theology of St. Augustine publié en 1970, offre une interprétation remarquable de la conception augustinienne de la vie sociale. Comment les buts que poursuivent les hommes en société, selon Augustin, se rapportent-ils aux fins dernières de leur existence ? À rebours de la théologie impériale constantinienne, l’évêque d’Hippone n’aurait pas seulement désacralisé l’ordre politique ét…
January 1980
Oedipus the King (continued). ~ The object of this year’s lectures: the element of the “I” in procedures of veridiction. As a result of what processes has telling the truth in the first person been able to establish itself as manifestation of truth? Relations between the art of governing men and self-alethurgy. ~ The question of Oedipal knowledge. In what does his tekhnē consist? Contrast with the ways of being of Creon and Teiresias. Specificall…
On the Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980
In these lectures delivered in 1980, Michel Foucault gives an important new inflection to his history of 'regimes of truth.' Following on from the themes of knowledge-power and governmentality, he turns his attention here to the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. Why and how, he asks, does the exercise of power as government demand not only acts of obedience and submission, but 'truth acts' in which individuals subject to rela…
On The Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980
With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require thos
Machiavelli Facing the Challenge of Gouvernementalité
For Michel Foucault, Machiavelli cannot be taken for the father of historico-political discourse, deciphering the signs of a permanent civil war in the political order and analyzing the relations of power as the relations of war, because he considers only the relation of force from the viewpoint of the strategy of the prince and not as a field, immanent to society and within which the relation of power takes place. 2 Further, he does not analyze …
La question de l’État de droit chez Michel Foucault
La question de l’État de droit est longtemps restée une question interne à la théorie juridique. Liée au débat constitutionnel allemand du xixe siècle, elle n’est entrée que tardivement, en France, dans le champ de réflexion des juristes. C’est la lutte contre le fascisme, dans les années 1930-1940, puis l’essor de la critique antitotalitaire, dans les années 1960, qui lui ont donné sa dimension politique. L’État de droit, par opposition aux diff…
January 1978
Generalfeatures of the apparatuses of security (II): relationship to the event: the art ofgoverning and treatment of the uncertain (1’aleatoire). ∼ The problem of scarcity (la disette) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ∼, From the mercantilists to the physiocrats. ∼Differences between apparatuses of security and disciplinary mechanisms in ways of dealing with the event. ∼The new governmental rationality and the emergence of “population…
April 1978
Police (continuation). ∼-, Delamare. The town as sitefor the development ofpolice. Police and urban regulation. Urbankation of the territory. Relationship between police and the mercantilistproblematic. ∼ Emergence of the market town. ∼ Methods ofpolice. Difference between police andjustice. An essentially regulatory type ofpower. Regulation and discipline.∼ Return to the problem ofgrain. ∼, Criticism of the police state on the basis of the probl…
February 1978
The problem of “ government ” in the sixteenth century . ∼ Multiplicity of practices of government (government ofself, government of souls, government of children, etcetera) . ∼ The s 1 vecfic 1 roroblem of the government of the state . ∼ The point of repulsion of the literature on government: Machiavelli ’ s The Prince. ∼ Briefhistory of the reception of The Prince until the nineteenth century . ∼ The art ofgovernment di.stinctfrom the Prince ’ …
March 1978
Raison d’Etat (II): its definition and principal characteristics in the seventeenth centuiy. ∼ The new model of historical temporality entailed by raison d’Etat. ∼ Specificfeatures of raison d’Etat with regard to pastoral government: (1) The problem of salvation: the theory of coup d’Etat (Naude). Necessity, violence, theatricality. (2) The problem of obedience. Bacon: the question of sedition. Dfferences between Bacon and Machiavelli. ∼ (3 ) The…
February 1978
Why study governmentality ? ∼ The problem of the state and population . ∼ Reminder of the general project: triple displacement of the analysis in relation to (a) the institution, (b) thefunction, and (c) the object . ∼ The stake of this year ’ s lectures . ∼ Elements for a history of “ government .” Its semanticfieldfrom the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. ∼ The idea of the government of inen. Its sources: (A) The organkation of a pastoral p…
March 1978
The second technological assemblage characteristic of the new art of government according to raison d’Etat: police. Traditional meanings of the word up to the sixteenth century. Its new sense in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: calculation and technique making possible the good use of the state ’ sforces. The triple relationship between the system of European balance and police. Diversity of Italian, German, and French situations. ∼ Turq…
March 1978
The notion of “conduct.” ∼ The crisis of the pastorate. ∼ Revolts of conduct in thefield of the pastorate. ∼, The shift offorms of resistance to the borders ofpolitical institutions in the modern age: examples of the army, secret societies, and medicine. ∼ Problem of vocabulary: “Revolts of conduct,” “insubordination (nsoumission),” “dissidence,” and “counter-conduct.” Pastoral counter-conducts. Historical reminder: (a) asceticism; (b) communitie…
March 1978
Raison d’Etat (III). ∼ The state as principle of intelligibility and as objective. Thefunctioning of this governmental reason: (A) In theoretical texts. The theory of the preservation of the state. (B) In political practice. Competition between states. The Treaty of Westphalia and the end of the Roman Empire. ∼’ Force, a new element ofpolitical reason. ∼ Politics and the dynamic of forces. ∼ Thefirst technological ensemble typical of this new art…
January 1978
General features of apparatuses of security (III). Normation (normation) and normakation . ∼ The example of the epidemic (smallpox) and inoculation campaigns in the eighteenth century. The emergence of new notions: case, risk, danger, and crisis . ∼ The forms of normaliZation in discipline and in mechanisms of security. ∼ Deployment of a new political technology: the government ofpopulations . ∼ The problem ofpopulation in the mercantilists and t…
February 1978
Analysis of the pastorate (end). ∼ Specificity of the Christian pastorate in comparison with Eastern and Hebraic traditions. ∼ An art of governing men. Its role in the history of governmentality. ∼ Main features of the Christian pastoratefrom the third to the sixth century (SaintJohn Chrysostom. Saint Cyprian, Saint Ambrose, Gregory the Great, Cassian, Saint Benedict): (1) the relationship to salvation. An economy of merits andfaults: (a) the pri…
February 1978
Analysis of the pastorate (continuation). The problem of the shepherdflock relationship in Greek literature and thought: Homer, the Pythagorean tradition. Rareness of the shepherd metaphor in classical political literature (Isocrates, Demosthenes) . ∼ A major exception: Plato ’ s The Statesman. The use of the metaphor in other Plato texts (Critias, Laws, The Republic). The critique of the idea of a magistrate-shepherd in The Statesman. The pastor…
January 1978
General perspective of the lectures: the study of bio power∼. Five proposals on the analysis of inechanisms of power. ∼ Legal system, disciplinary mechanisms, and security apparatuses (dispositifs). Two examples: (a) the punishment of theft; (b) the treatment of leprosy, plague, and smallpox. ∼ General features of security apparatuses (1): the spaces of security . ∼ The example of the town. ∼ Three examples ofplanning urban space in the sixteenth…
March 1978
From the pastoral of souls to the political government of men. ∼ General context of this transformation: the crisis of the pastorate and the insurrections of conduct in the sixteenth century. The Protestant Reformation and the Counter Reformation. Other factors. ∼ Two notable phenomena: the intensification of the religious pastorate and the increasing question of conduct, on both private and public levels. ∼ Governmental reason specific to the ex…
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977 - 78
This book derives from Foucault's lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in his thought. Focusing on 'bio-power', he studies the
Machiavélisme et Staats Raison au XVIIIe siècle, d'après L'Universal-Lexikon de Zedler
Cet article examine la façon dont le Grosses vollstandiges Universal-Lexikon, publié par Johann Heinrich Zedler de 1732 à 1750 et considéré comme la plus importante encyclopédie de langue allemande de son temps, accueille et réaménage la doctrine classique de la raison d'État. À rebours de l'interprétation selon laquelle la conception de l'État développée par le Lexikon s'inscrirait dans une pure logique jusnaturaliste, il met en évidence la perm…
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979
Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-w
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977 - 78
This book derives from Foucault's lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in his thought. Focusing on 'bio-power', he studies the
A crítica da razão governamental em Michel Foucault
O artigo examina a crítica da razão governamental moderna efetuada por Foucault sob dois aspectos fundamentais: em primeiro lugar, analisa a noção de crítica a partir de uma certa leitura que faz de Kant, articulada a uma ontologia do presente. Em segundo lugar, investiga o lugar ocupado pelo liberalismo neste procedimento crítico. Procura enfim mostrar que a crítica de Foucault escapa à imputação de reformismo.
À propos de Saeculum de Robert Markus
Le livre de Robert Markus, Saeculum : History and Society in the Theology of St. Augustine publié en 1970, offre une interprétation remarquable de la conception augustinienne de la vie sociale. Comment les buts que poursuivent les hommes en société, selon Augustin, se rapportent-ils aux fins dernières de leur existence ? À rebours de la théologie impériale constantinienne, l’évêque d’Hippone n’aurait pas seulement désacralisé l’ordre politique ét…
Secret et publicité dans l'art gouvernemental des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles
Senellart Michel. Secret et publicité dans l'art gouvernemental des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles. In: Quaderni, n°52, Automne 2003. Secret et pouvoir : les faux-semblants de la transparence. pp. 43-54
A crítica da razão governamental em Michel Foucault
O artigo examina a crítica da razão governamental moderna efetuada por Foucault sob dois aspectos fundamentais: em primeiro lugar, analisa a noção de crítica a partir de uma certa leitura que faz de Kant, articulada a uma ontologia do presente. Em segundo lugar, investiga o lugar ocupado pelo liberalismo neste procedimento crítico. Procura enfim mostrar que a crítica de Foucault escapa à imputação de reformismo.
Autonomie et hétéronomie de la politique: La Question De La Finalité
Ce titre quelque peu abstrait renvoie tout d'abord « la question de la finalité » à un problème précis et capital traité par Marcel Gauchet dans son article, mais aussi à une question, esquissée dans mon livre Les Arts de gouverner et qui fait l'objet de mes recherches actuelles : celle de l'autonomie et de l'hétéronomie de la politique, ou plus exactement celle du jeu entre autonomie et hétéronomie dans la formation du plan d'immanence de la pol…
Secret et publicité dans l'art gouvernemental des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles
Senellart Michel. Secret et publicité dans l'art gouvernemental des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles. In: Quaderni, n°52, Automne 2003. Secret et pouvoir : les faux-semblants de la transparence. pp. 43-54
Naissance de la biopolitique: Cours au collège de France (1978-1979)
Contient le résumé du cours publ. dans "L'Annuaire du Collège de France", 79e année, Histoire des systèmes de pensée, année 1978-1979, 1979
Security, territory, population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-78
Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which he gave at the College de France between January and April, 1978. Taking as his starting point the notion of "bio-power," introduced both in his 1976 course Society Must be Defended and in the first volume of his History of Sexuality, Foucault sets out to study the emergence of this new technology of power over population."--Jacket
March 1979
I WOULD LIKE TO assure you that, in spite of everything, I really did intend to talk about biopolitics, and then, things being what they are, I have ended up talking at length, and maybe for too long, about neoliberalism, and neo-liberalism in its German form. I must however explain a little this change to the direction I wanted to give these lectures. Obviously, I have not spoken at such length about neo-liberalism, and worse, about the German f…
January 1979
I WOULD LIKE TO refine a little the theses or hypotheses that I put forward last week with regard to what I think is a new art of government that began to be formulated, reflected upon, and outlined around the middle of the eighteenth century. I think an essential characteristic of this new art of government is the organization of numerous and complex internal mechanisms whose function—and this is what distinguishes them from raison d’Etat—is not…
March 1979
TODAY* I WOULD LIKE to start talking to you about what is becoming a pet theme in France: American neo-liberalism.’ Obviously, I will only consider some aspects and those that may have some relevance for the kind of analysis I am suggesting. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
February 1979
TODAY I WOULD LIKE to continue with what I began to say about German neo-liberalism. When you talk about contemporary neoliberalism, whether German or any other kind, you generally get three types of response. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
February 1979
TODAY I WOULD LIKE to try to finish what I began to say about post-war German neo-liberalism, that is to say, the contemporary neo-liberalism which actually involves us. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
March 1979
TODAY I WOULD LIKE to start from the things I have been explaining over the last weeks and go back a bit toward what I took as my starting point at the beginning of the year.Last week I tried to show how American neo-liberals apply, or at any rate try to apply economic analysis to a series of objects, to domains of behavior or conduct which were not market forms of behavior or conduct: they attempt to apply economic analysis to marriage, the educ…
February 1979
LAST WEEK I TRIED to show you how ordoliberalism necessarily entailed a Gesellschaftspolitik , as it was called, that is to say, a policy of society and a social interventionism that is at the same time active, multiple, vigilant, and omnipresent. So, on the one hand there is a market economy, and on the other an active, intense, and interventionist social policy. But we should again carefully underline that this social policy in ordoliberalism i…
January 1979
[YOU KNOW] FREUD’S QUOTATION: “ Acheronta movebo.”1 Well, I would like to take the theme for this year’s lectures from another, less well-known quotation from someone who, generally speaking at least, is also less well-known, the English Statesman Walpole,2 who, with reference to his way of governing, said: “ Quieta non movere,”3 “Let sleeping dogs lie.” ∼ In a sense, this is the opposite of Freud. In fact, this year I would like to continue with…
March 1979
TODAY I WOULD LIKE to talk a little about one aspect of American neo-liberalism, that is to say, the way in which [the American neo-liberals] try to use the market economy and the typical analyses of the market economy to decipher non-market relationships and phenomena which are not strictly and specifically economic but what we call social phenomena.* In other words, this means that I want to talk about the application of the economic grid to a …
January 1979
LAST WEEK I TRIED to clarify what seem to me to be some of the basic characteristics of the liberal art of government. First of all I spoke about the probkm of economic truth and of the truth of the market, and then of the problem of the limitation of governmentality by the calculus of utility. I would now like to deal with a third aspect which I think is also fundamental, that of international equilibriums, or Europe and the international space …
January 1979
I AM SURE YOU have all heard of the art historian, Berenson.’ He was almost one hundred years old, approaching death, when he said something like: “God knows I fear the destruction of the world by the atomic bomb, but there is at least one thing I fear as much, and that is the invasion of humanity by the state.” 2 I think this is the purest, clearest expression of a state-phobia one of the most constant features of which is its coupling with fear…
April 1979
LAST WEEK I TOUCHED on the theme of homo ceconomicus which has permeated economic thought, and especially liberal thought, since around the middle of the eighteenth century. I tried to show how homo ceconomicus was a sort of non-substitutable and irreducible atom of interest. I tried to show that this atom of interest could not be superimposed on, was not identifiable with, and was not reducible to the essential characteristics of the subject of …
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979
Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-w
January 1978
Generalfeatures of the apparatuses of security (II): relationship to the event: the art ofgoverning and treatment of the uncertain (1’aleatoire). ∼ The problem of scarcity (la disette) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ∼, From the mercantilists to the physiocrats. ∼Differences between apparatuses of security and disciplinary mechanisms in ways of dealing with the event. ∼The new governmental rationality and the emergence of “population…
April 1978
Police (continuation). ∼-, Delamare. The town as sitefor the development ofpolice. Police and urban regulation. Urbankation of the territory. Relationship between police and the mercantilistproblematic. ∼ Emergence of the market town. ∼ Methods ofpolice. Difference between police andjustice. An essentially regulatory type ofpower. Regulation and discipline.∼ Return to the problem ofgrain. ∼, Criticism of the police state on the basis of the probl…
February 1978
The problem of “ government ” in the sixteenth century . ∼ Multiplicity of practices of government (government ofself, government of souls, government of children, etcetera) . ∼ The s 1 vecfic 1 roroblem of the government of the state . ∼ The point of repulsion of the literature on government: Machiavelli ’ s The Prince. ∼ Briefhistory of the reception of The Prince until the nineteenth century . ∼ The art ofgovernment di.stinctfrom the Prince ’ …
March 1978
Raison d’Etat (II): its definition and principal characteristics in the seventeenth centuiy. ∼ The new model of historical temporality entailed by raison d’Etat. ∼ Specificfeatures of raison d’Etat with regard to pastoral government: (1) The problem of salvation: the theory of coup d’Etat (Naude). Necessity, violence, theatricality. (2) The problem of obedience. Bacon: the question of sedition. Dfferences between Bacon and Machiavelli. ∼ (3 ) The…
February 1978
Why study governmentality ? ∼ The problem of the state and population . ∼ Reminder of the general project: triple displacement of the analysis in relation to (a) the institution, (b) thefunction, and (c) the object . ∼ The stake of this year ’ s lectures . ∼ Elements for a history of “ government .” Its semanticfieldfrom the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. ∼ The idea of the government of inen. Its sources: (A) The organkation of a pastoral p…
March 1978
The second technological assemblage characteristic of the new art of government according to raison d’Etat: police. Traditional meanings of the word up to the sixteenth century. Its new sense in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: calculation and technique making possible the good use of the state ’ sforces. The triple relationship between the system of European balance and police. Diversity of Italian, German, and French situations. ∼ Turq…
March 1978
The notion of “conduct.” ∼ The crisis of the pastorate. ∼ Revolts of conduct in thefield of the pastorate. ∼, The shift offorms of resistance to the borders ofpolitical institutions in the modern age: examples of the army, secret societies, and medicine. ∼ Problem of vocabulary: “Revolts of conduct,” “insubordination (nsoumission),” “dissidence,” and “counter-conduct.” Pastoral counter-conducts. Historical reminder: (a) asceticism; (b) communitie…
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