scholarly journals Michel Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh. The fourth volume of the History of Sexuality

2018 ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
Sverre Raffnsøe
Keyword(s):  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
History Of

Review: Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité 4: Les aveux de la chair

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 293-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Elden
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The State ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
History Of

In February 2018 the fourth volume of Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality was finally published. Les aveux de la chair [Confessions of the Flesh] was edited by Frédéric Gros, and appeared in the same Gallimard series as Volumes 1, 2 and 3. The book deals with the early Christian Church Fathers of the second to fifth centuries. This essay reviews the book in relation to Foucault’s other work, showing how it sits in sequence with Volumes 2 and 3, but also partly bridges the chronological and conceptual gap to Volume 1. It discusses the state of the manuscript and whether it should have been published, given Foucault’s stipulation of ‘no posthumous publications’. It outlines the contents of the book, which is in three parts, on the formation of a new experience, on virginity and on marriage. There are also some important supplementary materials included. The review discusses how it begins to answer previously unanswered questions about Foucault’s work, and offers some suggestions about how the book might be received and discussed.

scholarly journals Reading Confessions of the Flesh as the Second Volume of the History of Sexuality

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-362
Author(s):  
Raag Rolfsen
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
History Of ◽  
Philosophical Project ◽  
Stated Purpose

Summary In this article, I propose a different reading of Foucault’s newly published work than suggested by the publishers and in initial reviews. I question the claim that it represents the fourth volume of the History of Sexuality and rather propose to regard it as an intended second volume. Comparing Foucault’s final plan of publication of the series with the background and stated purpose of Les aveux de la chair, I hold that it is part of a different philosophical project than volumes two and three. Foucault wrote Les aveux de la chair to explore the roots of modern power in the experiences that early Christianity occasioned. This makes the work relevant for current theology and the philosophy of religion.

scholarly journals Foucault’s Queer Virgins: An Unfinished History in Fragments

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-37
Author(s):  
Lynne Huffer
Keyword(s):  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Eternal Recurrence ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Fragmented Self ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

This essay attends to the place of virginity at the center of the fourth volume of Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh. Reading virginity through a rhetorical lens, the essay argues for an ethics and a politics of counter-conduct in Foucault characterized by chiasmus, a rhetorical structure of inverted parallelism. That chiastic structure frames Foucault’s Confessions, and all of his work, as a fragmented, self-hollowing speech haunted by death and the dissolution of the subject. The essay reads Foucault as apophatic speech that returns to us, no longer itself, made strange. In that deathly movement of eternal recurrence, Foucault’s Confessions speak after death from the x’d out place of the queer virgin: on a threshold that separates life from death, in a movement of metanoia or ethical conversion. As an unfinished history in fragments, the essay’s form brings attention to incompletion as a crucial aspect of Foucault’s work. The fragmentation that characterizes an unfinished history underscores poetic discontinuity as the hallmark of Foucault’s genealogical method and thought.

The History of Sexuality: Interview

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micheal Foucault
Keyword(s):  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
History Of

Editorial Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Editors of the JIOWS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
Shed Light

The editors are proud to present the first issue of the fourth volume of the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies. This issue contains three articles, by James Francis Warren (Murdoch University), Kelsey McFaul (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Marek Pawelczak (University of Warsaw), respectively. Warren’s and McFaul’s articles take different approaches to the growing body of work that discusses pirates in the Indian Ocean World, past and present. Warren’s article is historical, exploring the life and times of Julano Taupan in the nineteenth-century Philippines. He invites us to question the meaning of the word ‘pirate’ and the several ways in which Taupan’s life has been interpreted by different European colonists and by anti-colonial movements from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. McFaul’s article, meanwhile, takes a literary approach to discuss the much more recent phenomenon of Somali Piracy, which reached its apex in the last decade. Its contribution is to analyse the works of authors based in the region, challenging paradigms that have mostly been developed from analysis of works written in the West. Finally, Pawelczak’s article is a legal history of British jurisdiction in mid-late nineteenth-century Zanzibar. It examines one of the facets that underpinned European influence in the western Indian Ocean World before the establishment of colonial rule. In sum, this issue uses two key threads to shed light on the complex relationships between European and other Western powers and the Indian Ocean World.

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