“... and ritual observance. Paperno even detects a ‘biopolitical’ aspect, anticipating Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, in Freidenberg’s attention to the effects of control on the individual human body.As well as insisting on its value as political theory, Paperno sees Freidenberg’s writing as a powerful ‘self-ethnography’, comparable with ...”

“... Porter might resist the suggestion, his history is in some degree influenced by the views of Foucault and Maurice Canguilhem, who argued that ‘life’ as we understand it became an object of study in the early 19th century and that its regulation opened a new arena for the exercise of power. (We do not need 20th-century thinkers to make this point. The ...”

“... in the pursuit of the kinds of happiness that post-liberation gay life was meant to consist of’. Foucault, too, realised that happiness for homosexuals was a serious transgression and remarked: ‘People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but if the next day they’re smiling, holding hands and tenderly embracing one another, then they ...”

“... of black subjectivity in the visceral, constructed fact of ‘the body’, a device derived from Foucault by way of feminist discourse. Coates returns again and again to his desire to ‘unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape’. His own family proved a haven of stability, but he writes affectingly of his parents’ harsh discipline, of ...”

“... of the series, its immovability and its unchangeable pattern. ‘The history of ideas,’ says Foucault, ‘usually credits the discourse it analyses with coherence.’ In the Tatler, discourse is as discourse does, day after day, week after week. The gaps are out in the open, intervals between the dates proclaimed in the masthead. Coherence is reduced to ...”

“... revenue and military strength. Then the collection of numbers created a new motive, what Foucault called bio-politics, information aimed at controlling classes of people or the whole society. It was important for private and government actuaries to know how to predict rates of sickness, and between 1820 and 1840 numerical regularities about disease ...”

“... modern political implications of Spinoza’s rationality, what Habermas says about Freud and how Foucault might have reacted to it – we are returned again and again to a credal, and not truly deconstructed, defence of reason. Deconstruction has to stop somewhere, it is admitted, but the choice of terminus can be puzzling. It seems strange that a literary ...”

“... out that the two historians who have done most to encourage this view are Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault. In The Civilising Process, first published in 1939, Elias argued that a rising European bourgeoisie sought to discipline itself by a complex regulation of bodily impulses and gestures which amounted to a restructuring of personality. ...”

“... discussion. Among the more strictly theoretical pieces the best is a long chapter on Derrida and Foucault, which includes a well-executed discussion of the Hamlet mis-performance in Great Expectations and the light this throws on the deconstructive process. The best expository treatment of the latter remains, in my view, Christopher Norris’s ...”

“... Genet defended her in the media and wrote the foreword to a pamphlet published by Michel Foucault’s Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons called The Assassination of George Jackson. (Jackson had been shot in prison just before his trial started; the others were acquitted.) Foucault, who was working on Discipline ...”

“... ignorant of its fate and at the same time anxious to know about it. In The Birth of the Clinic, Foucault wrote that the practices of dissection in the 18th and 19th centuries brought the human corpse out of the dark cultural space of ‘gloomy respect’ into the light of science, where, its interior revealed to the public gaze, ‘the corpse became the ...”

“... English teacher, his authority would soon have been relinquished for Barthes and Derrida and Foucault. Some of the convictions that sustained him now seem odd relics. Hilliard details the mythologisation in Scrutiny of a lost world where labourers were creative artisans rather than alienated wage slaves. In particular Leavis recommended George Sturt’s ...”

“... possible ‘social support’ claim, magically depoliticised and legitimised by reference to Foucault. The revisionists could scarce forbear to cheer, if a little wistfully. They were singing our song. Pipes might say (but let him say it to Kotkin) that ‘Stalinist civilisation’ was a mere blip, perhaps even a mirage, on the 73-year journey towards ...”

“... the time, however, he may well have understood his career in very different terms, as that of what Foucault called a ‘writer function’, whose texts were perfected, if not executed, in close collaboration with trusted counsellors.Many riddles remain. What religion, if any, did Alberti believe in? He often clothed Christian terms and structures with ...”

“... taken upon the testimony of the patient.’ Things changed, thanks to the emergence of what Michel Foucault dubbed the new ‘clinical gaze’. The traditional bedside question – ‘What is the matter?’ – gave way to the modern: ‘Show me where it hurts.’ Diagnosis switched from subjective symptoms to objective signs – and power shifted from patient ...”