Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 2187366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verena |
| FAMILY NAME | Erlenbusch-Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ERLENBUSCH-ANDERSON V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Memphis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3757-6076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How method travels: Genealogy in Foucault and Castro-Gómez
This paper examines whether, and how, Foucauldian genealogy travels to contexts and problematizations beyond the method's European site of articulation. Our particular focus is on the work of Colombian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gómez, whose work includes both a systematic defense of the usefulness of Foucauldian inquiry for decolonial study and genealogical inquiry in a Foucauldian spirit but in a context beyond Foucault's own horizon of study.…
“Just the Same as Fascism for Us”: The Black Panther Party’s Antifascist Thought and Praxis
Recent scholarship on fascism has largely centered on identifying the defining features of fascism to determine whether political figures and parties are fascist. These debates take European fascism as paradigmatic, thereby obscuring alternative traditions of antifascist theorizing that can shed new light on the contemporary ascendancy of fascism in the United States and elsewhere. This paper examines one such alternative in the antifascist thoug…
Introduction: The Archival Turn in Political Theory
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Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. Wells
In light of increasing white supremacist violence in the United States, calls to identify such violence as terrorism have surged in public discourse. Federal and state agencies have taken up these demands and included white supremacy in counterterrorism and national security policy. While this classification appears to remove the racist double standard in applications of the terrorism label, it has come under criticism for obscuring the history a…
Going with Foucault beyond Foucault: Review of Frieder Vogelmann (ed.), "Fragmente eines Willens zum Wissen" (2020)
This essay reviews Frieder Vogelmann's edited volume " Fragmente eines Willens zum Wissen " (2020) with a focus on the methodological expansions and conceptual innovations Foucault developed in his lecture courses at the Collège de France. I discuss the volume as a contribution to Foucault scholarship and a work that shows how Foucault's concepts and methods can be put to work today to examine new problematics that were beyond his own horizon of …
Genealogy as Multiplicity, Contestation, and Relay: Response to Samir Haddad, Sarah Hansen, and Cressida Heyes
Genealogies of Terrorism pursues two interrelated goals: (1) to problematize ostensibly obvious assumptions about terrorism by (2) mobilizing Foucault's genealogical mode of inquiry in a site beyond his own scholarly horizon. As such, the book seeks to speak to a diverse set of audiences interested in terrorism and political violence, Foucault studies, critical theory, and political theory and philosophy. My primary aim in writing the book, howev…
Response to C. Heike Schotten’s review of Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire
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Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire
Verena Erlenbusch rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful. Genealogies of Terrorism is an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous critical history with important political implications.
Theodor W. Adorno on ‘Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory’
The following is the transcript of a lecture taken in shorthand by Hans-Georg Backhaus. The transcript was originally published as an appendix in Hans-Georg Backhaus, Dialektik der Wertform. Untersuchungen zur marxschen Ökonomiekritik (Freiburg: ça ira, 1997), a complete translation of which is forthcoming in the Historical Materialism book series
Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire
Genealogies of terrorism is an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous critical history with important political implications. Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson examines what we do when we name something terrorism, investigating the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful and the mechanisms of social and political exclusion that it enables. Tracing discourses and practices of terrorism from the French Revolution to…
Philosophical Practice Following Foucault
This paper develops a heuristic of different modes of philosophical engagement with Michel Foucault's work with the aim to aid self-reflection about contemporary uses of Foucault. Drawing on debates in the history of philosophy, I describe contextualism, appropriationism, and methodologism as three strands of Foucault scholarship. I then examine queer and feminist philosophical engagements with Foucault to explicate and illustrate the aims and st…
From Race War to Socialist Racism: Foucault’s Second Transcription
Since the publication of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, his position on race and racism has received much attention. The focus of discussion has largely been on his genealogy of biological racism as a feature of modern biopolitics. His account of social racism, by contrast, remains largely unexamined. Thus, the aim of this paper is to reconstruct and substantiate Foucault’s cursory remarks of the transcription of the histori…
Being a Foreigner in Philosophy: A Taxonomy
The question of diversity, both with regard to the demographic profile of philosophers as well as the content of philosophical inquiry, has received much attention in recent years. One figure that has gone relatively unnoticed is that of the foreigner. To the extent that philosophers have taken the foreigner as their object of inquiry, they have focused largely on challenges nonnative speakers of English face in a profession conducted predominant…
Foucault und die Realitätsbedingungen leiblicher Erfahrung
Politik handelt wesentlich von Körpern: Sie regiert und hierarchisiert Körper, sie unterscheidet jene Körper, die öffentlich sprechen dürfen, von solchen, die nicht vernehmbar sind. Der vorliegende Band geht der Frage nach, inwieweit es produktiv ist, in der aktuellen Renaissance des "Körper"-Begriffs in verschiedenen Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften (d. h. dem bisweilen so genannten "corporeal" oder "body turn"), die phänomenologische Untersche…
Terrorism and revolutionary violence: The emergence of terrorism in the French Revolution
Accounts of terrorism, which locate the emergence of the concept in the French Revolution, tend to accept two premises. First, they assume that the concept of terrorism names a particular form of violence. Second, they regard Robespierre as the first practitioner of terrorism, thus suggesting an understanding of the term as state violence. While this article substantiates the second premise by way of a discussion of the first systematic articulat…
The Place of Sovereignty: Mapping Power with Agamben, Butler, and Foucault
This article addresses the relationship between sovereignty, biopolitics and governmentality in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault. By unpacking Foucault’s genealogy of modern governmentality, it responds to a criticism leveled against Foucauldian accounts of power for their alleged abandonment of the traditional model of power in juridico-institutional terms in favor of an understanding of power as purely productive.…
How (not) to study terrorism
This article disputes the premise dominant in moral philosophy and the social sciences that a strict definition of terrorism is needed in order to evaluate and confront contemporary political violence. It argues that a definition of terrorism is not only unhelpful, but also impossible if the historicity and flexibility of the concept are to be taken seriously. Failure to account for terrorism as a historical phenomenon produces serious analytical…
The Concept of Sovereignty in Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy
The concept of sovereignty is one of the central concepts of modern political philosophy. However, faced with processes of economic globalization as well as legal and political universalism, contemporary political theory struggles to account for the exercise of state power in terms of the traditional understanding of sovereignty. This survey article reviews the most influential conceptualizations of sovereignty in contemporary continental politic…
Notes on violence: Walter Benjamin's relevance for the study of terrorism
This article uses Walter Benjamin's theoretical claims in the ‘Critique of violence’ to shed light on some current conceptualisations of terrorism. It suggests an understanding of terrorism as an essentially contested concept. If the theorist uncritically adopts the state's account of terrorism, she occludes an important dimension of the phenomenon that allows for a rethinking of the state's claim to a monopoly on legitimate violence. Benjamin's …
Theodor W. Adorno on ‘Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory’
The following is the transcript of a lecture taken in shorthand by Hans-Georg Backhaus. The transcript was originally published as an appendix in Hans-Georg Backhaus, Dialektik der Wertform. Untersuchungen zur marxschen Ökonomiekritik (Freiburg: ça ira, 1997), a complete translation of which is forthcoming in the Historical Materialism book series
Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. Wells
In light of increasing white supremacist violence in the United States, calls to identify such violence as terrorism have surged in public discourse. Federal and state agencies have taken up these demands and included white supremacy in counterterrorism and national security policy. While this classification appears to remove the racist double standard in applications of the terrorism label, it has come under criticism for obscuring the history a…
The Place of Sovereignty: Mapping Power with Agamben, Butler, and Foucault
This article addresses the relationship between sovereignty, biopolitics and governmentality in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault. By unpacking Foucault’s genealogy of modern governmentality, it responds to a criticism leveled against Foucauldian accounts of power for their alleged abandonment of the traditional model of power in juridico-institutional terms in favor of an understanding of power as purely productive.…
How (not) to study terrorism
This article disputes the premise dominant in moral philosophy and the social sciences that a strict definition of terrorism is needed in order to evaluate and confront contemporary political violence. It argues that a definition of terrorism is not only unhelpful, but also impossible if the historicity and flexibility of the concept are to be taken seriously. Failure to account for terrorism as a historical phenomenon produces serious analytical…
Being a Foreigner in Philosophy: A Taxonomy
The question of diversity, both with regard to the demographic profile of philosophers as well as the content of philosophical inquiry, has received much attention in recent years. One figure that has gone relatively unnoticed is that of the foreigner. To the extent that philosophers have taken the foreigner as their object of inquiry, they have focused largely on challenges nonnative speakers of English face in a profession conducted predominant…
Notes on violence: Walter Benjamin's relevance for the study of terrorism
This article uses Walter Benjamin's theoretical claims in the ‘Critique of violence’ to shed light on some current conceptualisations of terrorism. It suggests an understanding of terrorism as an essentially contested concept. If the theorist uncritically adopts the state's account of terrorism, she occludes an important dimension of the phenomenon that allows for a rethinking of the state's claim to a monopoly on legitimate violence. Benjamin's …
Introduction: The Archival Turn in Political Theory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From Race War to Socialist Racism: Foucault’s Second Transcription
Since the publication of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, his position on race and racism has received much attention. The focus of discussion has largely been on his genealogy of biological racism as a feature of modern biopolitics. His account of social racism, by contrast, remains largely unexamined. Thus, the aim of this paper is to reconstruct and substantiate Foucault’s cursory remarks of the transcription of the histori…
Terrorism and revolutionary violence: The emergence of terrorism in the French Revolution
Accounts of terrorism, which locate the emergence of the concept in the French Revolution, tend to accept two premises. First, they assume that the concept of terrorism names a particular form of violence. Second, they regard Robespierre as the first practitioner of terrorism, thus suggesting an understanding of the term as state violence. While this article substantiates the second premise by way of a discussion of the first systematic articulat…
The Concept of Sovereignty in Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy
The concept of sovereignty is one of the central concepts of modern political philosophy. However, faced with processes of economic globalization as well as legal and political universalism, contemporary political theory struggles to account for the exercise of state power in terms of the traditional understanding of sovereignty. This survey article reviews the most influential conceptualizations of sovereignty in contemporary continental politic…
Notes on violence: Walter Benjamin's relevance for the study of terrorism
This article uses Walter Benjamin's theoretical claims in the ‘Critique of violence’ to shed light on some current conceptualisations of terrorism. It suggests an understanding of terrorism as an essentially contested concept. If the theorist uncritically adopts the state's account of terrorism, she occludes an important dimension of the phenomenon that allows for a rethinking of the state's claim to a monopoly on legitimate violence. Benjamin's …
The Concept of Sovereignty in Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy
The concept of sovereignty is one of the central concepts of modern political philosophy. However, faced with processes of economic globalization as well as legal and political universalism, contemporary political theory struggles to account for the exercise of state power in terms of the traditional understanding of sovereignty. This survey article reviews the most influential conceptualizations of sovereignty in contemporary continental politic…
The Place of Sovereignty: Mapping Power with Agamben, Butler, and Foucault
This article addresses the relationship between sovereignty, biopolitics and governmentality in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault. By unpacking Foucault’s genealogy of modern governmentality, it responds to a criticism leveled against Foucauldian accounts of power for their alleged abandonment of the traditional model of power in juridico-institutional terms in favor of an understanding of power as purely productive.…
How (not) to study terrorism
This article disputes the premise dominant in moral philosophy and the social sciences that a strict definition of terrorism is needed in order to evaluate and confront contemporary political violence. It argues that a definition of terrorism is not only unhelpful, but also impossible if the historicity and flexibility of the concept are to be taken seriously. Failure to account for terrorism as a historical phenomenon produces serious analytical…
Foucault und die Realitätsbedingungen leiblicher Erfahrung
Politik handelt wesentlich von Körpern: Sie regiert und hierarchisiert Körper, sie unterscheidet jene Körper, die öffentlich sprechen dürfen, von solchen, die nicht vernehmbar sind. Der vorliegende Band geht der Frage nach, inwieweit es produktiv ist, in der aktuellen Renaissance des "Körper"-Begriffs in verschiedenen Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften (d. h. dem bisweilen so genannten "corporeal" oder "body turn"), die phänomenologische Untersche…
Terrorism and revolutionary violence: The emergence of terrorism in the French Revolution
Accounts of terrorism, which locate the emergence of the concept in the French Revolution, tend to accept two premises. First, they assume that the concept of terrorism names a particular form of violence. Second, they regard Robespierre as the first practitioner of terrorism, thus suggesting an understanding of the term as state violence. While this article substantiates the second premise by way of a discussion of the first systematic articulat…
From Race War to Socialist Racism: Foucault’s Second Transcription
Since the publication of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, his position on race and racism has received much attention. The focus of discussion has largely been on his genealogy of biological racism as a feature of modern biopolitics. His account of social racism, by contrast, remains largely unexamined. Thus, the aim of this paper is to reconstruct and substantiate Foucault’s cursory remarks of the transcription of the histori…
Being a Foreigner in Philosophy: A Taxonomy
The question of diversity, both with regard to the demographic profile of philosophers as well as the content of philosophical inquiry, has received much attention in recent years. One figure that has gone relatively unnoticed is that of the foreigner. To the extent that philosophers have taken the foreigner as their object of inquiry, they have focused largely on challenges nonnative speakers of English face in a profession conducted predominant…
Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire
Verena Erlenbusch rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful. Genealogies of Terrorism is an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous critical history with important political implications.
Theodor W. Adorno on ‘Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory’
The following is the transcript of a lecture taken in shorthand by Hans-Georg Backhaus. The transcript was originally published as an appendix in Hans-Georg Backhaus, Dialektik der Wertform. Untersuchungen zur marxschen Ökonomiekritik (Freiburg: ça ira, 1997), a complete translation of which is forthcoming in the Historical Materialism book series
Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire
Genealogies of terrorism is an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous critical history with important political implications. Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson examines what we do when we name something terrorism, investigating the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful and the mechanisms of social and political exclusion that it enables. Tracing discourses and practices of terrorism from the French Revolution to…
Philosophical Practice Following Foucault
This paper develops a heuristic of different modes of philosophical engagement with Michel Foucault's work with the aim to aid self-reflection about contemporary uses of Foucault. Drawing on debates in the history of philosophy, I describe contextualism, appropriationism, and methodologism as three strands of Foucault scholarship. I then examine queer and feminist philosophical engagements with Foucault to explicate and illustrate the aims and st…
Response to C. Heike Schotten’s review of Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Genealogy as Multiplicity, Contestation, and Relay: Response to Samir Haddad, Sarah Hansen, and Cressida Heyes
Genealogies of Terrorism pursues two interrelated goals: (1) to problematize ostensibly obvious assumptions about terrorism by (2) mobilizing Foucault's genealogical mode of inquiry in a site beyond his own scholarly horizon. As such, the book seeks to speak to a diverse set of audiences interested in terrorism and political violence, Foucault studies, critical theory, and political theory and philosophy. My primary aim in writing the book, howev…
Going with Foucault beyond Foucault: Review of Frieder Vogelmann (ed.), "Fragmente eines Willens zum Wissen" (2020)
This essay reviews Frieder Vogelmann's edited volume " Fragmente eines Willens zum Wissen " (2020) with a focus on the methodological expansions and conceptual innovations Foucault developed in his lecture courses at the Collège de France. I discuss the volume as a contribution to Foucault scholarship and a work that shows how Foucault's concepts and methods can be put to work today to examine new problematics that were beyond his own horizon of …
Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. Wells
In light of increasing white supremacist violence in the United States, calls to identify such violence as terrorism have surged in public discourse. Federal and state agencies have taken up these demands and included white supremacy in counterterrorism and national security policy. While this classification appears to remove the racist double standard in applications of the terrorism label, it has come under criticism for obscuring the history a…
“Just the Same as Fascism for Us”: The Black Panther Party’s Antifascist Thought and Praxis
Recent scholarship on fascism has largely centered on identifying the defining features of fascism to determine whether political figures and parties are fascist. These debates take European fascism as paradigmatic, thereby obscuring alternative traditions of antifascist theorizing that can shed new light on the contemporary ascendancy of fascism in the United States and elsewhere. This paper examines one such alternative in the antifascist thoug…
Introduction: The Archival Turn in Political Theory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
How method travels: Genealogy in Foucault and Castro-Gómez
This paper examines whether, and how, Foucauldian genealogy travels to contexts and problematizations beyond the method's European site of articulation. Our particular focus is on the work of Colombian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gómez, whose work includes both a systematic defense of the usefulness of Foucauldian inquiry for decolonial study and genealogical inquiry in a Foucauldian spirit but in a context beyond Foucault's own horizon of study.…
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