The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12947491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Golder (0000-0003-4481-9184, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 102-105 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foucault Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1832-5203 • E-ISSN: 1832-5203 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.22439/fs.v0i26.5757 |
| OpenAlex | W2948198901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is magisterial in scope; forbidding in length; endlessly interesting, surprising, provocative and insightful as a reference source; and, occasionally somewhat frustrating or curious for the baffled reader confronted with over 700 pages of erudite guidance to almost every imaginable highway and byway of Foucault scholarship today (almost: more on this, tendentiously, shortly).I should add that while these foregoing reasons make it a very exciting addition to that body of scholarship, they also mean that it is not the easiest book to review.I have never before admitted in the opening sentences of a book review -because I have never had cause to admit such a shameful fact -that I have not read every single page of the book under review.But here I am making such an admission -as I just mentioned, and in my defence, the book runs to over 700 pages and its 117 separate entries run the conceptual gamut from 'Abnormal' to 'War' (Terms) and 'Althusser' to 'von Clausewitz' (Proper Names).A Lexicon, like its close scholarly relatives the Encyclopaedia, the Dictionary, the Handbook and the Companion, is doubtless not intended to be read from cover to cover, and this particular Lexicon presents a range of different points of entry or pathways of reading.For example, in the midst of writing something on Foucault's strategic resort to rights discourse in his late work, it was very helpful to me to be able to turn to John Protevi's entry on 'War.' 1 One can dip into this treasure trove to solve any manner of problems (equally to raise them, or sharpen them, of course) in the course of one's own research.Or one can pick an entry and follow it.Here the particular path that a reader traces through the Lexicon will depend both on that reader's chosen entry point and on the trail that he or she is directed to by the cross-references at the end of each individual entry.Betraying my own disciplinary affiliations, one of my first journeys through the Lexicon went as follows: I started with Andrew Dilts's excellent entry on 'Law,' 2 crucial topic but by no means an easy
Lexicon · Linguistics · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |