D Lorenzini
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 32884 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D Lorenzini |
| PRENOMES | D |
| SOBRENOME | Lorenzini |
| ASSINATURA | LORENZINI D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8794-9419 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 118 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Who’s afraid of the perlocutionary
J.L. Austin’s insight that language should be treated as a domain of human action, rather than merely as a tool for the transmission of information, has been enormously influential. His analysis of speech acts continues to be widely utilised in a vast number of fields, from the philosophy of language to social and political philosophy, the philosophy of law, gender and literary studies, as well as a variety of social sciences. Yet scholars have s…
Critique Beyond Criticism
Productive Crisis (2024/2025), 40-44.See also Sverre Raffnsøe, "What is Critique?Critical Turns in the Age of Criticism" (2017), for a discussion of the concept and history of critique in general, as well as of the prehistory of critique in particular (esp.36-37).
What Does It Mean to Diagnose the Present
I argue that, in Michel Foucault's work, archaeology and genealogy both have a diagnostic function, and in fact that they depend on each other to implement it. They should therefore be construed as the two aspects of the same method whose aim is to diagnose the present. I claim that, in turn, diagnosing the present does not consist in describing “what is happening” as a journalist would do, nor in a hermeneutical or therapeutic endeavor, but in s…
Truth, Asceticism, and Becoming
In light of the recent publication of an important volume collecting previously unpublished lectures and manuscripts by Michel Foucault on Friedrich Nietzsche, this paper discusses the (largely implicit) presence of Nietzsche in Foucault's later lectures and writings. In particular, I address Foucault's references to the notions of Wahrsagen and Wahrsager in connection with his own project to write a genealogy of truth-telling, as well as his pro…
The architectonic of Foucault's critique
This paper presents a new interpretation of Michel Foucault's critical project. It is well known that Foucault's genealogical critique does not focus on issues of justification, but instead tackles “aspectival captivity,” that is, apparently inevitable limits of thought that constrain the subject's freedom but that, in fact, can be transformed. However, it has not been recognized that, according to Foucault, critique can proceed along two distinc…
Rethinking biopolitics
In this article, I develop a critique of the forms of differential vulnerability produced by biopolitical technologies of power which became particularly salient during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, I address some conceptual and methodological questions linked to Foucault’s work on biopolitics, and I argue that one of his most promising insights is the claim that biopolitics necessarily entails a politics of differential vulnerability. I then dev…
On possibilising genealogy
In this paper, I argue that the vindicatory/unmasking distinction has so far prevented scholars from grasping a third dimension of genealogical inquiry, one I call possibilising. This dimension has passed unnoticed even though it constitutes a crucial aspect of Foucault’s genealogical project starting from 1978 on. By focusing attention on it, I hope to provide a definitive rebuttal of one of the main criticisms that has been raised against (unma…
"What Is Critique?" and "The Culture of the Self"
Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the care of the self. On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefines his entire philosophical project in light of Immanuel Kant’s 1784 text, “What Is Enlightenment?” Foucault strikingly characterizes critique as the political and moral attitude consisting in the “art of not being governed in this particular way,” one that p…
Foucault, governmentality, and the techniques of the self
In this chapter, I retrace the emergence of the notion of governmentality in Michel Foucault’s work. First, I show that the anatomo- and bio-political mechanisms of power that he explores in the 1970s have the government of human beings’ (everyday) life as a common goal. I then argue that Foucault elaborates the notion of governmentality as a response to the objection that his power/knowledge framework makes any attempt at resistance ultimately p…
Foucault Before the Collège de France
This introduction to the special issue 'Foucault Before the Collège de France' surveys Foucault's work in the first part of his career. While there is a familiar chronology to the books he published in the 1960s - from History of Madness to The Archaeology of Knowledge - the story can be developed in relation to his articles, his translations, his early publications and manuscripts, and his teaching. Looking at the programme of posthumous publica…
Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice
This paper addresses the multiple readings that Foucault offers of Descartes' Meditations during the whole span of his intellectual career. It thus rejects the (almost) exclusive focus of the literature on the few pages of the History of Madness dedicated to the Meditations and on the so-called Foucault/Derrida debate. First, it reconstructs Foucault's interpretation of Descartes' philosophy in a series of unpublished manuscripts written between …
Reason Versus Power
In this paper, I take issue with the idea that Michel Foucault might be considered a theorist of epistemic injustice, and argue that his philosophical premises are incompatible with Miranda Fricker’s. Their main disagreement rests upon their divergent ways of conceiving the relationship between reason and power, giving rise to the contrasting forms of normativity that characterize their critical projects. This disagreement can be helpfully clarif…
La fragilité de l’intellect. Martha Nussbaum, Aristote et la vie bonne
On propose de faire dialoguer l’interprétation que Martha Nussbaum donne de la conception aristotélicienne de la vie bonne avec les lectures « perfectionnistes » de Michel Foucault, Pierre Hadot et Stanley Cavell. Ces lectures permettent d’apporter de précieux éléments de réponse à la difficulté soulevée dans l’appendice à la troisième partie de La Fragilité du bien : rendre compte de la tension, chez Aristote, entre un modèle de la vie bonne ent…
Speaking the Truth about Oneself
Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus
In a recent blog post, Joshua Clover rightly notices the swift emergence of a new panoply of “genres of the quarantine.”1 It should not come as a surprise that one of them centers on Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics, asking whether or not it is still appropriate to describe the situation that we are currently experiencing. Neither should it come as a surprise that, in virtually all of the contributions that make use of the concept of biopo…
Governmentality, subjectivity, and the neoliberal form of life
In this paper, I argue that the appropriate answer to the question of the form contemporary neoliberalism gives our lives rests on Michel Foucault’s definition of neoliberalism as a particular art of governing human beings. I claim that Foucault’s definition consists in three components: neoliberalism as a set of technologies structuring the ‘milieu’ of individuals in order to obtain specific effects from their behavior; neoliberalism as a govern…
Alèthurgie oculaire et littérature de témoignage de Sophocle à Soljenitsyne
Dans cet article, en commençant par une analyse inédite de l’ Œdipe Roi de Sophocle, nous abordons le problème du statut du témoin oculaire et de sa prise de parole, ou mieux, de son « dire-vrai » en tant qu’acte de langage spécifique, notamment au sein de la littérature de témoignage. Nous soutenons que la question cruciale à poser à ce propos est celle de l’engagement du locuteur dans son discours, et que l’acte de témoigner va donc bien au-del…
Présentation
Dis-)qualifier le populisme Le concept de « populisme » a pris une telle ampleur depuis au moins une vingtaine d’années, qu’il met aujourd’hui les chercheurs en sciences sociales et en philosophie politique dans une situation très embarrassante. Son omniprésence dans les discours politico-médiatiques, notamment en Europe, mais bien au-delà, son caractère idéologiquement surchargé, son extension remarquablement large sur le spectre politique, ses …
The Emergence of Desire
We are our sexuality," or at least we have been told so over and over. In a sense, there is no doubt that this goes without saying; we would not be able to think of ourselves, of our most fundamental psychological identity, without thinking of our sexuality, of this often deep and secret layer of our desires that reveals the type of individual that we are. 1 This hardly questionable remark was also the starting point of The Will to Know, the firs…
Introduction
Governmentality, subjectivity, and the neoliberal form of life
In this paper, I argue that the appropriate answer to the question of the form contemporary neoliberalism gives our lives rests on Michel Foucault’s definition of neoliberalism as a particular art of governing human beings. I claim that Foucault’s definition consists in three components: neoliberalism as a set of technologies structuring the ‘milieu’ of individuals in order to obtain specific effects from their behavior; neoliberalism as a govern…
Foucault, the Iranian Uprising and the Constitution of a Collective Subjectivity
As is well known, Foucault went to Iran
Jacques Maritain on Anti-Semitism and Human Rights
As we mark the seventieth anniversary of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the ongoing contemporary publishing boom in the history of the origins of human rights affords us an opportunity to better understand the philosopher Jacques Maritain’s distinctive contribution to the post-Second World War human rights project. Daniele Lorenzini’s groundbreaking research into Maritain’s thought and activism during this period offers hu…
Confessional Subjects and Conducts of Non-Truth
This article puts Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon into dialogue in order to explore the relationships between the constitution of subjects and the production of truth in modern Western societies as well as in colonial spaces. Firstly, it takes into account Foucault's analysis of confessional practices and the effects of subjection, objectivation, and subjectivation generated by the injunction for the subject to tell the truth about him or hersel…
Foucault(s)
Cet ouvrage se donne pour tâche de répondre à une question apparemment simple : qu’en est-il aujourd’hui de la pensée foucaldienne ? Bien loin de vouloir ériger Foucault en auteur canonique, il se propose d’esquisser le tableau, le plus large et le plus différencié possible, des études foucaldiennes contemporaines. Il s’efforce donc non pas de restituer la richesse des différents visages de Foucault - penseur tout à la fois de l’historicité et du…
Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus
In a recent blog post, Joshua Clover rightly notices the swift emergence of a new panoply of “genres of the quarantine.”1 It should not come as a surprise that one of them centers on Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics, asking whether or not it is still appropriate to describe the situation that we are currently experiencing. Neither should it come as a surprise that, in virtually all of the contributions that make use of the concept of biopo…
Confessional Subjects and Conducts of Non-Truth
This article puts Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon into dialogue in order to explore the relationships between the constitution of subjects and the production of truth in modern Western societies as well as in colonial spaces. Firstly, it takes into account Foucault's analysis of confessional practices and the effects of subjection, objectivation, and subjectivation generated by the injunction for the subject to tell the truth about him or hersel…
From Counter-Conduct to Critical Attitude
In this article I reconstruct the philosophical conditions for the emergence of the notion of counter-conduct within the framework of Michel Foucault's study of governmentality, and I explore the reasons for its disappearance after 1978. In particular, I argue that the concept of conduct becomes crucial for Foucault in order to redefine governmental power relations as specific ways to conduct the conduct of individuals: it is initially within thi…
The Emergence of Desire
We are our sexuality," or at least we have been told so over and over. In a sense, there is no doubt that this goes without saying; we would not be able to think of ourselves, of our most fundamental psychological identity, without thinking of our sexuality, of this often deep and secret layer of our desires that reveals the type of individual that we are. 1 This hardly questionable remark was also the starting point of The Will to Know, the firs…
Performative, Passionate, and Parrhesiastic Utterance
Speaking the Truth about Oneself
Prises de parole
Briser le silence
Cet article explore la possibilité de faire dialoguer les travaux de James C. Scott sur l'« infrapolitique » et de Michel Foucault sur la parrêsia à partir du problème de la prise de parole. Il s'organise notamment autour de trois questions majeures : la première porte sur les manières dont la prise parole peut (et vise à) tester les limites d'une configuration donnée de rapports de pouvoir ; la deuxième concerne la dimension (éthique) du courage…
Présentation
Dis-)qualifier le populisme Le concept de « populisme » a pris une telle ampleur depuis au moins une vingtaine d’années, qu’il met aujourd’hui les chercheurs en sciences sociales et en philosophie politique dans une situation très embarrassante. Son omniprésence dans les discours politico-médiatiques, notamment en Europe, mais bien au-delà, son caractère idéologiquement surchargé, son extension remarquablement large sur le spectre politique, ses …
Must We Do What We Say
The central argument of this paper is that moral perfectionism cannot be understood in its radical philosophical, ethical and political dimensions unless we trace its tradition back to the ancient Greek conception of philosophy as a way of life. Indeed, in ancient Greece, to be a philosopher meant to give importance to everyday life and to pay attention to the details of common language and behaviour, in order to actively transform oneself and on…
What is a "Regime of Truth"?
In this paper, I offer an overview of the ways in which Foucault defines and uses the concept of 'regime of truth' in his works between 1975 and 1980, focusing especially on his lectures at the Collège de France On the Government of the Living. There, I argue, a substantial shift takes place, which corresponds to the emergence of the dimension of subjectivity at the heart of the concept of regime of truth itself. This shift bears witness to Fouca…
Performative, Passionate, and Parrhesiastic Utterance
Foucault Wittgenstein
Les œuvres de Foucault et de Wittgenstein, qui relèvent de traditions philosophiques fort éloignées, peuvent toutefois entrer en résonance et se relancer mutuellement : cette mise en perspective permet alors de cerner les points aveugles comme l’insistance contemporaine du questionnement philosophique propres à chacune d’elles. Ces deux auteurs ont en effet proposé une critique radicale de la notion classique d’une subjectivité souveraine, contre…
Foucault, Regimes of Truth and the Making of the Subject
From Counter-Conduct to Critical Attitude
In this article I reconstruct the philosophical conditions for the emergence of the notion of counter-conduct within the framework of Michel Foucault's study of governmentality, and I explore the reasons for its disappearance after 1978. In particular, I argue that the concept of conduct becomes crucial for Foucault in order to redefine governmental power relations as specific ways to conduct the conduct of individuals: it is initially within thi…
Foucault(s)
Cet ouvrage se donne pour tâche de répondre à une question apparemment simple : qu’en est-il aujourd’hui de la pensée foucaldienne ? Bien loin de vouloir ériger Foucault en auteur canonique, il se propose d’esquisser le tableau, le plus large et le plus différencié possible, des études foucaldiennes contemporaines. Il s’efforce donc non pas de restituer la richesse des différents visages de Foucault - penseur tout à la fois de l’historicité et du…
La pensée politique de Foucault
Prises de parole
Briser le silence
Cet article explore la possibilité de faire dialoguer les travaux de James C. Scott sur l'« infrapolitique » et de Michel Foucault sur la parrêsia à partir du problème de la prise de parole. Il s'organise notamment autour de trois questions majeures : la première porte sur les manières dont la prise parole peut (et vise à) tester les limites d'une configuration donnée de rapports de pouvoir ; la deuxième concerne la dimension (éthique) du courage…
Governmentality, subjectivity, and the neoliberal form of life
In this paper, I argue that the appropriate answer to the question of the form contemporary neoliberalism gives our lives rests on Michel Foucault’s definition of neoliberalism as a particular art of governing human beings. I claim that Foucault’s definition consists in three components: neoliberalism as a set of technologies structuring the ‘milieu’ of individuals in order to obtain specific effects from their behavior; neoliberalism as a govern…
Foucault, the Iranian Uprising and the Constitution of a Collective Subjectivity
As is well known, Foucault went to Iran
Jacques Maritain on Anti-Semitism and Human Rights
As we mark the seventieth anniversary of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the ongoing contemporary publishing boom in the history of the origins of human rights affords us an opportunity to better understand the philosopher Jacques Maritain’s distinctive contribution to the post-Second World War human rights project. Daniele Lorenzini’s groundbreaking research into Maritain’s thought and activism during this period offers hu…
Confessional Subjects and Conducts of Non-Truth
This article puts Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon into dialogue in order to explore the relationships between the constitution of subjects and the production of truth in modern Western societies as well as in colonial spaces. Firstly, it takes into account Foucault's analysis of confessional practices and the effects of subjection, objectivation, and subjectivation generated by the injunction for the subject to tell the truth about him or hersel…
The Emergence of Desire
We are our sexuality," or at least we have been told so over and over. In a sense, there is no doubt that this goes without saying; we would not be able to think of ourselves, of our most fundamental psychological identity, without thinking of our sexuality, of this often deep and secret layer of our desires that reveals the type of individual that we are. 1 This hardly questionable remark was also the starting point of The Will to Know, the firs…
Introduction
Governmentality, subjectivity, and the neoliberal form of life
In this paper, I argue that the appropriate answer to the question of the form contemporary neoliberalism gives our lives rests on Michel Foucault’s definition of neoliberalism as a particular art of governing human beings. I claim that Foucault’s definition consists in three components: neoliberalism as a set of technologies structuring the ‘milieu’ of individuals in order to obtain specific effects from their behavior; neoliberalism as a govern…
Alèthurgie oculaire et littérature de témoignage de Sophocle à Soljenitsyne
Dans cet article, en commençant par une analyse inédite de l’ Œdipe Roi de Sophocle, nous abordons le problème du statut du témoin oculaire et de sa prise de parole, ou mieux, de son « dire-vrai » en tant qu’acte de langage spécifique, notamment au sein de la littérature de témoignage. Nous soutenons que la question cruciale à poser à ce propos est celle de l’engagement du locuteur dans son discours, et que l’acte de témoigner va donc bien au-del…
Présentation
Dis-)qualifier le populisme Le concept de « populisme » a pris une telle ampleur depuis au moins une vingtaine d’années, qu’il met aujourd’hui les chercheurs en sciences sociales et en philosophie politique dans une situation très embarrassante. Son omniprésence dans les discours politico-médiatiques, notamment en Europe, mais bien au-delà, son caractère idéologiquement surchargé, son extension remarquablement large sur le spectre politique, ses …
Speaking the Truth about Oneself
Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus
In a recent blog post, Joshua Clover rightly notices the swift emergence of a new panoply of “genres of the quarantine.”1 It should not come as a surprise that one of them centers on Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics, asking whether or not it is still appropriate to describe the situation that we are currently experiencing. Neither should it come as a surprise that, in virtually all of the contributions that make use of the concept of biopo…
Reason Versus Power
In this paper, I take issue with the idea that Michel Foucault might be considered a theorist of epistemic injustice, and argue that his philosophical premises are incompatible with Miranda Fricker’s. Their main disagreement rests upon their divergent ways of conceiving the relationship between reason and power, giving rise to the contrasting forms of normativity that characterize their critical projects. This disagreement can be helpfully clarif…
La fragilité de l’intellect. Martha Nussbaum, Aristote et la vie bonne
On propose de faire dialoguer l’interprétation que Martha Nussbaum donne de la conception aristotélicienne de la vie bonne avec les lectures « perfectionnistes » de Michel Foucault, Pierre Hadot et Stanley Cavell. Ces lectures permettent d’apporter de précieux éléments de réponse à la difficulté soulevée dans l’appendice à la troisième partie de La Fragilité du bien : rendre compte de la tension, chez Aristote, entre un modèle de la vie bonne ent…
Foucault, governmentality, and the techniques of the self
In this chapter, I retrace the emergence of the notion of governmentality in Michel Foucault’s work. First, I show that the anatomo- and bio-political mechanisms of power that he explores in the 1970s have the government of human beings’ (everyday) life as a common goal. I then argue that Foucault elaborates the notion of governmentality as a response to the objection that his power/knowledge framework makes any attempt at resistance ultimately p…
Foucault Before the Collège de France
This introduction to the special issue 'Foucault Before the Collège de France' surveys Foucault's work in the first part of his career. While there is a familiar chronology to the books he published in the 1960s - from History of Madness to The Archaeology of Knowledge - the story can be developed in relation to his articles, his translations, his early publications and manuscripts, and his teaching. Looking at the programme of posthumous publica…
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