François Ewald
Biographic Data
| ID | 299998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | François Ewald |
| GIVEN NAMES | François |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewald |
| SIGNATURE | EWALD F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 117 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3004 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 108 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
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
The Birth of Solidarity: The History of the French Welfare State
François Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity-first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in English for the first time-is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state. Theorizing the origins of social insurance, Ewald shows how the growing problem of industrial accidents in France throughout the nineteenth century tested the limits of classical…
Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972
The Values of Insurance
March 01 2019 The Values of Insurance François Ewald François Ewald François Ewald is a leading thinker of accident and risk as social technology. Author of L'état providence (Grasset, 1986), he has coedited a number of books, including, with Jean-Hervé Lorenzi, Encyclopédie de l'assurance (Economica, 1998). He also served as a general editor of Michel Foucault's Dits et écrits (Gallimard, 1994) and of Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France…
March 1981
The three great transformations of sexual ethics in the first centuries CE. ~ A reference text: Plutarch’s Erôtikos. ~ Specificity of Christian experience. ~ Plan of The Dialogue on Love. ~ The comic situation. ~ The young boy’s place: central and passive position. ~ The portrait of Ismenodora as pederast woman. ~ The break with the classical principles of the ethics of aphrodisia. ~ The transfer of the benefits of the pederastic relationship to …
January 1981
The question of the relations between subjectivity and truth and the problem of the dream. ~ The oneirocriticism of Artemidorus. ~ The ethical system of sexual acts through the analysis of dreams. ~ Distinction between dreams- rêves and dreams- songes. ~ The economic and social signification of dreams. ~ The social-sexual continuum. ~ Sexual relations in accordance with nature and the law. ~ Sexual relations contrary to the law. ~ Sexual relation…
Course Summary
1 UNDER THE GENERAL TITLE of “Subjectivity and Truth,” it is a matter of beginning an inquiry regarding instituted modes of self-knowledge and their history: how was the subject established, at different times and in different institutional contexts, as a possible, desirable, or even indispensable object of knowledge? How were the experiences that one may have of oneself and the knowledge that one forms from it organized through certain schemas? …
February 1981
The new economy of the aphrodisia. ~ Traditional mistrust of sexual activity: religious restrictions. ~ Double relationship of sexuality: symmetry with death, incompatibility with the truth. ~ Sexual activity and philosophical life. ~ The medical description of the sexual act. ~ Comparison of the sexual act and epileptic crisis. ~ Christian transformation of the death-truth-sex triangle. ~ Consequences of the conjugalization of sexual pleasure in…
January 1981
The fable of the elephant in Saint Francis of Sales. ~ Versions of the fable in the Middle Ages and sixteenth century. ~ The Physiologus. ~ Versions of the fable in Greek and Latin antiquity. ~ The endpoint with Aristotle. ~ The “subjectivity and truth” relationship: philosophical, positivist, historico-philosophical formulations of the problem. ~ Subjectivity as historical relationship to the truth, and truth as historical system of obligations.…
March 1981
The problem of redundant discourse ( discours en trop ). ~ The Christian re-appropriation of the Hellenistic and Roman matrimonial code. ~ Problematization of the relation between discourse and reality. ~ First explanation: representative reduplication. ~ Four characteristics of the game of veridiction in relation to reality: supplementary, pointless, polymorphous, efficient. ~ Second explanation: ideological disavowal. ~ Third explanation: unive…
January 1981
Return to the fable of the elephant. ~ The arts of living: typology and evolution. ~ Mathēsis, meletē, askēsis: relationship to others, the truth, and oneself. ~ Notes on the concepts of “paganism,” “Judeo-Christianity,” “capitalism,” as categories of self-analysis of Western societies. ~ Problem of the pre-existence of “Christian sexual morality” in Stoicism.
February 1981
Process of valorization and illusion of the code. ~ Experience of the flesh and codification. ~ The philosophers’ new sexual ethics: hyper-valorization of marriage and devalorization of pleasure. ~ Comparative advantages and disadvantages of marriage. ~ Should a philosopher marry? ~ The negative answer of the Cynics and Epicureans. ~ The duty of marriage in the Stoics. ~ The exception of marriage for the philosopher in the present catastasis, acc…
January 1981
The ethical perception of the aphrodisia. ~ Principle of social-sexual isomorphism and principle of activity. ~ Valorization of marriage and definition of adultery. ~ Modern experience of sexuality: localization of sexuality and division of the sexes. ~ Penetration as natural and non-relational activity. ~ The discrediting of passive pleasure. ~ Paradox of the effeminate womanizer. ~ Problematization of the relationship with boys. ~ The desexuali…
April 1981
Situation of the arts of living at the point of articulation of a system of valorization and a model of behavior. ~ The target-public of techniques of self: competitive aristocracies. ~ Historical transformation of the procedures of the distribution of power: court and bureaucracy. ~ Re-elaboration of the principle of activity and socio-sexual isomorphism in marriage. — Splitting of sex and doubling of self on self. ~ Cultural consequence: fantas…
March 1981
The spread of the matrimonial model in the Hellenistic and Roman period. ~ The nature of the discourse on marriage: tekhnai peri bion. ~ Definition of tekhné and bios. ~ The three lives. ~ Christian (or modern) subjectivity and Greek bios. ~ From paganism to Christianity: breaks and continuities. ~ Incompatibilities between the old system of valorization and the new code of conduct. ~ Adjustment through subjectivation: caesura of sex and self-con…
February 1981
The kata phusin character of marriage. ~ Xenophon's Oeconomicus: study of the speech of Ischomachus to his young wife. ~ The classical ends of marriage. ~ The naturalness of marriage according to Musonius Rufus. ~ The desire for community. ~ The couple or the herd: the two modes of social being according to Hierocles. ~ The relationship to the spouse or the friend in Aristotle: differential intensities. ~ The form of the conjugal bond: organic un…
March 1981
The new ethics of marriage. ~ Evolution of matrimonial practices: the historians' point of view. ~ Institutional publicization, social extension, transformation of the relationship between spouses. ~ The evidence of writers: the poems of Statius and Pliny's letters. ~ Games of truth and reality of practices.
Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981
“The working hypothesis is this: it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independent of codes and systems of prohibitions, but it needs to be recalled straightaway that these codes ar
The Punitive Society
These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern mo
February 1973
†I HAVE STRESSED THE fact that the prison was born in the element of the penitentiary because of the tendency of some historians to say that the prison existed for a long time as an empty form in which individuals were shut up, with the prison having no other function than to soak up this population that one wanted to be rid of, and that it was after negative experience and research that the penitentiary was [added] to the prison in order to rect…
Becker et Foucault sur les délits et les peines: Débat entre Gary Becker, François Ewald et Bernard E. Harcourt
Bernard E. Harcourt Nous allons aborder principalement la théorie économique du crime et du châtiment de Gary Becker (1968), et l’analyse par Foucault du travail de Becker dans le cours du 21 mars 1979 (Foucault, 2004 : 245-270). Nous en profiterons pour explorer d’une manière profonde la relation entre, d’une part, les textes de Foucault sur la pénalité (de La Société punitive, cours de 1972-1973 [Foucault, 2013] à Surveiller et punir en 1975, j…
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
Gary Becker dialogue avec Michel Foucault
Le debat intitule « American neoliberalism & Michel Foucault’s 1979 birth of biopolitics lectures: A conversation with Gary Becker, Francois Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt » s’est tenu a l’universite de Chicago le 9 mai 2012. Bernard E. Harcourt Bienvenue a tous. Je viens de lire dans les journaux que plusieurs universites – Harvard, MIT, Princeton, et Stanford – ont commence a mettre en ligne des cours gratuits ouverts a tous. Il s’agit donc aujour…
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
The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France 1982-1983
An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parr?sia) in ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy. Foucault discusses the difficult and changing
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981-82
Dits et écrits, 1954-1988, Tome III: 1976-1979
O terceiro volume de "Dits et Écrits" de Michel Foucault compila textos e entrevistas produzidos entre 1976 e 1979, período crucial para a compreensão da evolução de seu pensamento. Abarcando temas como poder, segurança, biopolítica e a emergência da governamentalidade, este volume oferece insights sobre o desenvolvimento de conceitos-chave em sua obra. Os textos aqui reunidos demonstram o engajamento de Foucault com questões políticas e sociais …
Dits et écrits, 1954-1988, Tome IV: 1980-1988
O quarto volume de "Dits et Écrits" de Michel Foucault compila textos e entrevistas do período de 1980 a 1988, os últimos oito anos de sua vida. Abordando temas como a ética, a subjetividade, o poder, a governamentalidade e a história da sexualidade, o volume inclui trabalhos importantes como "O sujeito e o poder" e "Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur?" (O que é um autor?). Os textos demonstram a evolução do pensamento de Foucault nesse período, com ênfase n…
Norms, Discipline, and the Law
Research Article| April 01 1990 Norms, Discipline, and the Law François Ewald François Ewald Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1990) 30: 138–161. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928449 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation François Ewald; No…
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974
Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker: American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault's 1979 'Birth of Biopolitics' Lectures
In a series of lectures delivered in 1979 at the Collège de France under the title The Birth of Biopolitics, Michel Foucault conducted a close reading of Gary Becker's writings on human capital and on crime and punishment, within the context of an elaboration and critique of American neoliberalism. Foucault was assisted at the time, at the Collège de France, by François Ewald. Since then, there has been ongoing debate over Foucault's views about …
Les noces du risque et de la politique
Les AA. montrent comment l'elargissement du domaine d'application du raisonnement en termes de risque conduit a en faire une categorie politique desormais indispensable a la conduite des societes. Leur hypothese est que l'insistance de la topique du risque dans la societe contemporaine ne peut pas seulement s'interpreter comme la traduction d'une multiplication des risques, ouvrant ainsi de nouveaux domaines pour de nouvelles protections, mais do…
Dits et écrits: 1954-1988
Le gouvernement de soi et des autres: Cours au Collège de France (1982-1983)
Transcription des cours que M. Foucault donna au Collège de France en 1983. Chaque leçon est précédée d'un bref sommaire qui en indique les principales articulations. Dans ce cours consacré à la notion de parrêsia (franc-parler, courage de la vérité), M. Foucault réinterroge la citoyenneté grecque."--[Electre
Le principe de précaution: Entre politique et responsabilité
La première est l'importance pratique de problèmes que posent certains risques, dont quelques exemples ont été évoqués ci-dessus.Problèmes qui ont plusieurs fois été qualifiés de « crises » (quand ce n'est pas de « scandales »), et qui par là traduisent l'inadéquation des procédures ou des structures existantes.Aussi nombre d'auteurs tentent-ils ici de réfléchir, en deçà du principe de précaution, aux conditions actuelles de la gestion des risque…
The Values of Insurance
March 01 2019 The Values of Insurance François Ewald François Ewald François Ewald is a leading thinker of accident and risk as social technology. Author of L'état providence (Grasset, 1986), he has coedited a number of books, including, with Jean-Hervé Lorenzi, Encyclopédie de l'assurance (Economica, 1998). He also served as a general editor of Michel Foucault's Dits et écrits (Gallimard, 1994) and of Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France…
Gary Becker dialogue avec Michel Foucault
Le debat intitule « American neoliberalism & Michel Foucault’s 1979 birth of biopolitics lectures: A conversation with Gary Becker, Francois Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt » s’est tenu a l’universite de Chicago le 9 mai 2012. Bernard E. Harcourt Bienvenue a tous. Je viens de lire dans les journaux que plusieurs universites – Harvard, MIT, Princeton, et Stanford – ont commence a mettre en ligne des cours gratuits ouverts a tous. Il s’agit donc aujour…
Becker et Foucault sur les délits et les peines: Débat entre Gary Becker, François Ewald et Bernard E. Harcourt
Bernard E. Harcourt Nous allons aborder principalement la théorie économique du crime et du châtiment de Gary Becker (1968), et l’analyse par Foucault du travail de Becker dans le cours du 21 mars 1979 (Foucault, 2004 : 245-270). Nous en profiterons pour explorer d’une manière profonde la relation entre, d’une part, les textes de Foucault sur la pénalité (de La Société punitive, cours de 1972-1973 [Foucault, 2013] à Surveiller et punir en 1975, j…
La société assurancielle et son avenir
Formation de la notion d'accident du travail
Comment s'est donc formée la notion moderne de contrat de travail, c'est-à-dire un contrat où, en opposition avec la doctrine libérale, l'un des contractants se met sous la dépendance de l'autre pour la garantie de sa sécurité ? L'histoire traditionnelle du travail la fait naître à la fin du XIXe siècle, quand sont votées les «lois ouvrières » et, en particulier, la loi sur les accidents du travail qui met les «risques professionnels » courus par…
« Il y a tant d'aurores qui n'ont pas encore lui… »
Formation de la notion d'accident du travail
Comment s'est donc formée la notion moderne de contrat de travail, c'est-à-dire un contrat où, en opposition avec la doctrine libérale, l'un des contractants se met sous la dépendance de l'autre pour la garantie de sa sécurité ? L'histoire traditionnelle du travail la fait naître à la fin du XIXe siècle, quand sont votées les «lois ouvrières » et, en particulier, la loi sur les accidents du travail qui met les «risques professionnels » courus par…
L'État providence
Droit: Systèmes Et Stratégies
Norms, Discipline, and the Law
Research Article| April 01 1990 Norms, Discipline, and the Law François Ewald François Ewald Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1990) 30: 138–161. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928449 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation François Ewald; No…
Dits et écrits, 1954-1988, Tome II: 1970-1975
« Si je devais écrire un livre pour communiquer ce que je pense déjà, avant d'avoir commencé à écrire, je n'aurais jamais le courage de l'entreprendre. Je ne l'écris que parce que je ne sais pas encore exactement quoi penser de cette chose que je voudrais tant penser. [...] Je suis un expérimentateur en ce sens que j'écris pour me changer moi-même et ne plus penser la même chose qu'auparavant. » Michel Foucault, 1978. Ces Dits et écrits, qui réun…
Dits et écrits, 1954-1988, Tome IV: 1980-1988
O quarto volume de "Dits et Écrits" de Michel Foucault compila textos e entrevistas do período de 1980 a 1988, os últimos oito anos de sua vida. Abordando temas como a ética, a subjetividade, o poder, a governamentalidade e a história da sexualidade, o volume inclui trabalhos importantes como "O sujeito e o poder" e "Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur?" (O que é um autor?). Os textos demonstram a evolução do pensamento de Foucault nesse período, com ênfase n…
Dits et écrits, 1954-1988, Tome III: 1976-1979
O terceiro volume de "Dits et Écrits" de Michel Foucault compila textos e entrevistas produzidos entre 1976 e 1979, período crucial para a compreensão da evolução de seu pensamento. Abarcando temas como poder, segurança, biopolítica e a emergência da governamentalidade, este volume oferece insights sobre o desenvolvimento de conceitos-chave em sua obra. Os textos aqui reunidos demonstram o engajamento de Foucault com questões políticas e sociais …
Dits et écrits: 1954-1988
Nationaliser le Social (note critique)
Il y a plus de dix ans, en 1981, Pierre Rosanvallon avait publié un premier essai, La crise de l'État-providence , vite devenu référence, qui avait été un des premiers instruments de la prise de conscience d'un problème qui n'a plus cessé de s'accuser. La nouvelle question sociale va bien au-delà de ce premier essai, car, explique Pierre Rosanvallon, pendant ces quelque quinze ans, la crise de l'Etat-providence ne s'est pas seulement approfondie,…
L’indemnisation des victimes permet-elle d’éviter la prévention des accidents du travail
Foucault and the contemporary scene
What relevance does Foucault have, more than a decade after his death? Foucault was a sort of philosophical journalist - continually concerned with what is happening in the present. And it is here that we find one of the guiding threads of Foucault’s ethics: we must be constantly vigilant in ensuring that the present does not become a mere repetition of the past. Philosophy must produce events that can act to disrupt this repetition. This is the …
Le principe de précaution: Entre politique et responsabilité
La première est l'importance pratique de problèmes que posent certains risques, dont quelques exemples ont été évoqués ci-dessus.Problèmes qui ont plusieurs fois été qualifiés de « crises » (quand ce n'est pas de « scandales »), et qui par là traduisent l'inadéquation des procédures ou des structures existantes.Aussi nombre d'auteurs tentent-ils ici de réfléchir, en deçà du principe de précaution, aux conditions actuelles de la gestion des risque…
Les noces du risque et de la politique
Les AA. montrent comment l'elargissement du domaine d'application du raisonnement en termes de risque conduit a en faire une categorie politique desormais indispensable a la conduite des societes. Leur hypothese est que l'insistance de la topique du risque dans la societe contemporaine ne peut pas seulement s'interpreter comme la traduction d'une multiplication des risques, ouvrant ainsi de nouveaux domaines pour de nouvelles protections, mais do…
Il faut défendre la société
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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
The Hermeneutics of the Subject
La hermenéutica del sujeto: Curso del Collège de France (1982)
Lectures critiques
Distribution électronique Cairn
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981-82
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974
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.
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