Mike Gane
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 170404 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mike Gane |
| NOMBRES | Mike |
| APELLIDO | Gane |
| FIRMA | GANE M |
| AFILIACIONES | Loughborough University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 79 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 144 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Nature of Sociology
The Lives of Michel Foucault. A Biography by David Macey (review)
Žižek
Two very substantial new books by Slavoj Žižek were published in early 2020; they are at two different ends of the spectrum that runs from obscure Hegelian-Lacanian philosophical reflections (Sex and the Failed Absolute) to uninhibited short Maoist-Leninist political “interventions” (A Left That Dares to Speak Its Name). Žižek claims to have completed an intellectual system (continuing the idea of earlier essays) that, as a philosophical foundati…
The New Foucault Effect
This review article considers two lecture courses by Michel Foucault (1972–73, 1979–80) and two books relating to the whole series of lectures (1970–84) by Stuart Elden. Foucault’s lecture courses can be divided into three phases, the first focused on the difference between sovereign and disciplinary power; the second on biopower, security, and liberalism; and the third on the government of the self and others. Foucault in 1976–79 altered his ear…
Comte, Auguste
Auguste Comte elaborated a vast system of thoughts organized on simple principles. His main contributions include the development of positive research methods within a history of the sciences, the new science of sociology and ethics, and a new religion he called the religion of humanity. All his work was framed in a single law: the law of the three states.
Bolshevism (Leninism)
Bolshevism emerged as a faction within the Russian Social‐Democratic Party in 1902, and its theory was developed extensively by Lenin. Its vision of revolution as a combination of peasant and proletarian revolution demanded a centralized party machine capable of working clandestinely in the conditions of Tsarist autocracy. After the revolution in Russia in 1917 in which the Bolsheviks seized power, and Lenin's death in 1924, a struggle for power …
Postmodernism
Postmodernism was an important intellectual movement in the period 1975–2000 that was noted for its attempt to replace the grand narratives of linear progressivism with a cultural re‐enchantment that welcomed ideas of chaos theory and deconstruction. There is an important difference, however, between postmodernity as a social formation, and postmodernism identified as a specific kind of stylistic invention involving a new ethic of tolerance of di…
The Holocaust and Humanity
Whenever I read critiques of Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), by far Bauman’s greatest work, I hope to find a complete and definitive refutation of every step of the argument. And this classic work, which even today retains its devastating provocative charge, should be regarded as the book to be refuted, since its thesis could not be more deeply disturbing. The recent spate of Bauman critiques, which I cannot review here, reflect the continuin…
Journey to Isidore
If Auguste Comte is known as the inventor of sociology, he is less well known as utopian thinker. Indeed recent surveys and discussions of utopism exclude his work entirely. This article examines Comte's division of methods into objective and subjective and his recourse to utopia. Three major concepts were introduced by Comte in his utopian projet: altruism, sociocracy and the religion of Humanity. The author investigates the consequence of such …
The Cultural Logics of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism involves significant state interventions in the economic, social, and cultural spheres—but not in the way embraced by classic liberals and socialists (external planning and administration); neoliberalism instead bases its legitimation on the myth that institutions that escape the rigors of the market and competition induce a new serfdom. This article examines, through the writings of Jean Baudrillard on the cultural logics of neolib…
Governing Through Freedom
Theoretical neoliberalism is the long work of reconstruction of economic theory led by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman and others to forge a mode of intervention that sees big state planning as a harbinger of new threats to individual independence and freedom—the road to a new serfdom. What should not be underestimated is the vast intellectual labor of this tradition—it can be traced from the famous Walter Lippmann Colloquium in Paris in 1938…
Towards a critique of Foucault
The work of Michel Foucault, one of the most influential of modern French social theorists and philosophers, has had a dramatic and far-reaching effect on many disciplines. The essays in this reissued collection, originally published in 1986, present Foucault's work as an important contribution to the theoretical analysis of history, language and power. They also represent a critical response to this contribution, encouraging readers not only to …
Foucault's New Domains
1. Introduction, Mike Gane and Terry Johnson 2. Kant on Enlightenment, Michel Foucault 3. Question, Ethos, Event, Colin Gordon 4. The Will to Knowledge, Pasqale Pasquino 5. A Genealogy of Political Economy, Denis Meuret 6. Governing Economic Life, Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose 7. The Promotion of the Social, Jacques Donzelot 8. Professions, Govermentality, Terry Johnson 9. Personality as a Vocation, Ian Hunter 10. Archaeologizing Genealogy, Phil …
Auguste Comte
This final volume of Mary Pickering's monumental intellectual biography of Auguste Comte (b. 1798) covers his last years from 1852 to 1857. The first volume (more than 700 pages, covering 1798–1842) was published in 1993 (rev. ante, cx [1995], 134–6); Volume II (some 586 pages) was published in 2009. Altogether, then, the biography is nearly 2,000 pages, getting on for a million words. Certainly this is the definitive biography, and it is appropr…
Baudrillard's Radicalization of Fetishism
Baudrillard's theories developed dramatically over his intellectual career of forty years, and throughout these years he contributed considerably to the thematic of cultural fetishism. Consistent with his conception of the consumer society, he developed the notion of sign-fetishism, and object-fetishism. These are both steps in the radicalization of Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, drawing on freud's idea of fetishism as a perverse structure. …
On Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method
This radical appraisal of Durkheim's method, first published in 1988, argues that fundamental errors have been made in interpreting Durkheim. Mike Gane argues that to understand The Rules it is necessary also to understand the context of the French society in which the book was written. He explores the cultural and philosophical debates which raged in France during the period when Durkheim prepared the book and establishes the real and unsuspecte…
Michel Foucault
The Paradox of Neo-liberalism
In the spring and summer of 1938 two quite different seminars took place in Paris. One was the very well-known Collège de Sociologie, which included the participation of Caillois and Bataille – see ‘Sacred Sociology of the Contemporary World’, 2 April 1938, and the session ‘Festival’, 2 May 1939, in which Caillois indicates the importance of sacred games (in Hollier 1988: 157–159, 279–303). The other was the Walter Lippman Colloque, 26–30 August …
Cool Memories
In his Cool Memories series (and its complementary text, America) written over almost a quarter of a century (1980—2004), Baudrillard attempted to write in an aphoristic, fragmented mode in order to grasp the world without `finding a central point, a point of interpretation'. How should these notebooks be read? Are they simply an account of a way of living, or do they provide illustrations of a doctrine worked out in Baudrillard's theoretical wor…
Ghosts of Place
This is a book about “the archaeology of recent conflict” written by someone involved in English Heritage as “Head of Military Programmes.” Written with reference to a wide range of theoretical and philosophical reflection as well as archaeology, the author has “current projects” at Greenham Common, Nevada, Berlin, and Valletta in Malta. Schofield draws on Virilio in particular to sketch out a theory of how recent conflicts differ from traditiona…
Fétichisme et politique positive
Le rôle crucial donné par Comte à un néo-fétichisme renaissant constitue un des aspects importants, voire surprenants, de l'élaboration utopiste de la politique positive. La combinaison du fétichisme et du positivisme se justifie par un certain nombre de raisons, pas seulement épistémologiques. L'article examine l'évolution du concept de fétichisme dans l'œuvre de Comte et la façon dont il pensait que ses différentes formes pouvaient être réconci…
Baudrillard's Lucidity Pact
Of Jean Baudrillard's four orders of simulacra: the natural, the commodity, the code, and the fractal the first three have been widely acknowledged, especially the importance of the theory of the third order for his analysis of the Gulf War. But the fourth order has not been accorded similar recognition and his works around this idea are not as widely known. It is clear that his essays on 9/11 drew substantially on ideas rounding out the theory o…
Defending the Durkheimian Tradition
Sociologists and the Regime of Fetishes
The logic of Comte’s second career becomes clear in the 1848 Discourse. Unlike the Discourse of 1844 (which was a preface to a treatise on geometry) it is essentially an introduction to sociology in a religious mode. But in order to read and locate the motor in Comte’s theory it is essential to bear in mind that all the description of the positive polity itself lies in the realm of fiction, the ideal type; it is utopian writing, and expressly so.…
The origins of neoliberalism
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte's sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure. Comte's contributions to the history and philosophy of science have decisively influenced positive methodologies. He coined the term 'sociology' and gave…
Institutional socialism and the sociological critique of communism (Introduction to Durkheim and Mauss)
This eassay examines the relation of Durkheim and Mauses to socialism and communism. Durkheimian sociology can be regared as an elaborate attempt to prove the need for substantial reforms, particularly th need for corporative institution. Instituonal socialism, or liberal guild socialism, was Durkhem's conception of the means to resolve the crisis of European societies which had opened with the abolition of the guilds in the eighteenth centure. D…
Durkheim
Durkheim's conception of language is presented against the background of his conceptualisation of social facts and is contrasted with that of Saussure. It is suggested that by emphasinsing the externality of the social fact relative to the individual Durkheim is led to the proposion that the social expresses itself through means characterised by their externality.Durkheim's objective social logos is graphocentric; the sacred is, above all, writte…
Durkheim's scenography of suicide
Durkheim's classic study Suicide still has many surprises and mysteries over 100 years after it was written: why was the order of analysis reversed in this study? Why did Durkheim have recourse to theory? Why did the study require dramatizations of its 'individual forms'? This paper tries to answer these questions with reference to Durkheim's failure to find a link between the way individual suicides are committed and social causation. This simpl…
The Nature of Sociology
Ironies of postmodernism
Baudrillard's work has been presented as the essential postmodernist contribution to social theory. Yet doubts have been expressed as to the accuracy and the meaning of this claim. Here a number of leading presentations are reviewed against the claims and denials found in the work of Baudrillard himself: his opposition to postmodernism and his refusal to be labelled postmodernist. The ironies of this position are discussed with respect to Marxist…
Anthony Giddens and the crisis of social theory1
1983). Anthony Giddens and the crisis of social theory. Economy and Society: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 368-398
Paul Virilio's Bunker Theorizing
This article reconstructs Virilio's thinking of and from the bunker. Around this theme and image it identifies the major volte face in his thinking. Before and during May '68 Virilio was committed to a project for the revolutionary acceleration of human circulation through oblique cities. He abandoned this in the aftermath of May '68, theorizing the new situation as one of pure war leading to pure communication. The article contrasts Virilio's an…
Durkheim
This article examines recent discussions of Durkheim's writing on the division of the sexes and argues that Durkheim's position remains ill understood. It suggests that changes in his conception of the sexual division played a pivotal role in the reorganisation of his sociology. Durkheim thus proposed two distinct theories of the evolution of the sexes. From the beginning, however, he was theoretically pre-disposed to follow the conservative posi…
On the ISAs episode
On Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method
Canguilhem and the problem of pathology
This article examines continuities and change in Cangilhem's thought with particular reference to the status of biology and sociology and to the theme of intellectual and social progress. It is suggested that one of the central issues of Cangilhem's writings is an attempt to work through the problems raised by the programme of Comtean positivism. The fact that Canguilhem's reflections were not completely unambigous is dusscussed through an examin…
Out of the Maze? Twists and Riddles of Postmodern Thinking
The form of Foucault
Journey to Isidore
If Auguste Comte is known as the inventor of sociology, he is less well known as utopian thinker. Indeed recent surveys and discussions of utopism exclude his work entirely. This article examines Comte's division of methods into objective and subjective and his recourse to utopia. Three major concepts were introduced by Comte in his utopian projet: altruism, sociocracy and the religion of Humanity. The author investigates the consequence of such …
The Cultural Logics of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism involves significant state interventions in the economic, social, and cultural spheres—but not in the way embraced by classic liberals and socialists (external planning and administration); neoliberalism instead bases its legitimation on the myth that institutions that escape the rigors of the market and competition induce a new serfdom. This article examines, through the writings of Jean Baudrillard on the cultural logics of neolib…
Durkheim's theory of violence
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) developed a wide-ranging foundational sociology that has often been read as lacking a theory of politics, power and violence. This article argues that this view can be contested and outlines a reading of Durkheim's work that reveals that it places power and violence at the centre of its concerns through the concept of social energy. The discussion examines aspects of Durkheim's work on education, the family, gender, sui…
Unresolved Comte
This article examines the recent biography of Auguste Comte by Mary Pickering. It suggests that the new biography provides much useful new information on Comte's life and work,but argues that Comte's theoretical sociology has not been well served.Unnecessary complicationshave been introduced in the interpretation of Comte's personal life which make it essential to examine ways of reading the new biography
The Perfection of Geography as an Aesthetic of Disappearance
Mary Wollstonecraft's social theory in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of Womanis still very much a contested text, in fact the debate is now perhaps more vigorous than at any other time. This article examines some recent changes in the terms of the debate (the writings of Mary Poovey,Cora Kaplan, Timothy Reiss, and Jane Spencer) and works toward a re-examination of the theory presented in the text itself. Wollstonecraft took Enlightenment social criticism as a resou…
The Paradox of Neo-liberalism
In the spring and summer of 1938 two quite different seminars took place in Paris. One was the very well-known Collège de Sociologie, which included the participation of Caillois and Bataille – see ‘Sacred Sociology of the Contemporary World’, 2 April 1938, and the session ‘Festival’, 2 May 1939, in which Caillois indicates the importance of sacred games (in Hollier 1988: 157–159, 279–303). The other was the Walter Lippman Colloque, 26–30 August …
Ghosts of Place
This is a book about “the archaeology of recent conflict” written by someone involved in English Heritage as “Head of Military Programmes.” Written with reference to a wide range of theoretical and philosophical reflection as well as archaeology, the author has “current projects” at Greenham Common, Nevada, Berlin, and Valletta in Malta. Schofield draws on Virilio in particular to sketch out a theory of how recent conflicts differ from traditiona…
The Art of Sociological Argument - G. Crow
Radical Theory
Rhetoric
Borges/Menard/Spinoza
The manuscript, apparently by Huguette A., which is reproduced here, purports to give an account of a seminar paper on Jorge Luis Borges’ essay ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’ by George Lewis. Lewis, himself obsessed by textual reduplications and reconstructions, presents various readings of the Borges essay and then produces his own which supports the ‘Spinozism’ of Menard. However, the manuscript could, perhaps, be read as une lettre d'a…
Textual theory
Anthony Giddens and the crisis of social theory1
1983). Anthony Giddens and the crisis of social theory. Economy and Society: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 368-398
Durkheim
This article examines recent discussions of Durkheim's writing on the division of the sexes and argues that Durkheim's position remains ill understood. It suggests that changes in his conception of the sexual division played a pivotal role in the reorganisation of his sociology. Durkheim thus proposed two distinct theories of the evolution of the sexes. From the beginning, however, he was theoretically pre-disposed to follow the conservative posi…
Durkheim
Durkheim's conception of language is presented against the background of his conceptualisation of social facts and is contrasted with that of Saussure. It is suggested that by emphasinsing the externality of the social fact relative to the individual Durkheim is led to the proposion that the social expresses itself through means characterised by their externality.Durkheim's objective social logos is graphocentric; the sacred is, above all, writte…
On the ISAs episode
Institutional socialism and the sociological critique of communism (Introduction to Durkheim and Mauss)
This eassay examines the relation of Durkheim and Mauses to socialism and communism. Durkheimian sociology can be regared as an elaborate attempt to prove the need for substantial reforms, particularly th need for corporative institution. Instituonal socialism, or liberal guild socialism, was Durkhem's conception of the means to resolve the crisis of European societies which had opened with the abolition of the guilds in the eighteenth centure. D…
Towards a critique of Foucault
1. Introduction: Michel Foucault 2. Foucault's Genealogy of the Human Sciences 3. The Linguistic Fault: The Case of Foucault's Archaeology 4. The Nouvelle Philosophie and Foucault 5. Strategies for Socialists? Foucault's Conception of Power 6. Power and Analysis: Beyond Foucault
The form of Foucault
Towards a Critique of Foucault
Durkheimian Sociology
Rhetoric
The Radical Durkheim
On Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method
Les règles de la méthode sociologique
Este artigo da "Revue Française de Sociologie" revisita "As Regras do Método Sociológico" de Émile Durkheim, focando em sua relevância contínua para a teoria e prática sociológicas. A obra seminal de Durkheim, publicada originalmente em 1895, argumenta pela necessidade de tratar os fatos sociais como coisas, estabelecendo a sociologia como uma disciplina científica distinta. O artigo explora os principais conceitos do livro, como a definição e id…
Ironies of postmodernism
Baudrillard's work has been presented as the essential postmodernist contribution to social theory. Yet doubts have been expressed as to the accuracy and the meaning of this claim. Here a number of leading presentations are reviewed against the claims and denials found in the work of Baudrillard himself: his opposition to postmodernism and his refusal to be labelled postmodernist. The ironies of this position are discussed with respect to Marxist…
The Radical Durkheim
The radical sociology of Durkheim and Mauss
Nietzsche's imaginary lovers
Largely as a result of recent Fench interpretations, Nietzsche has become a central figure in the contemporary consideration of femininity and masculinity, a strange outcome for a writer often considered profoundly misogynist. This article examines some recent discusions of Nietzshe's reflection on women and the emergence of Irigaray as Nietzshe's ‘marine lover
Mary Wollstonecraft's social theory in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of Womanis still very much a contested text, in fact the debate is now perhaps more vigorous than at any other time. This article examines some recent changes in the terms of the debate (the writings of Mary Poovey,Cora Kaplan, Timothy Reiss, and Jane Spencer) and works toward a re-examination of the theory presented in the text itself. Wollstonecraft took Enlightenment social criticism as a resou…
Out of the Maze? Twists and Riddles of Postmodern Thinking
The Perfection of Geography as an Aesthetic of Disappearance
Note on “radical thought” (La Pensée Radicale)
(1995). Note on “radical thought” (La Pensee Radicale) Parallax: Vol. 1, Cultural Studies and Philosophy, pp. 63-65
Cultural studies and philosophy
(1995). Cultural studies and philosophy. Parallax: Vol. 1, Cultural Studies and Philosophy, pp. 93-117
Foucault's New Domains
Sociology (54 obras) · Epistemology (47 obras) · Philosophy (45 obras) · Philosophy (36 obras) · Political science (23 obras) · Social science (19 obras) · Emile Durkheim and Sociology (15 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Art (14 obras) · Politics (14 obras)