The Passion of Michel Foucault

The Passion of Michel Foucault is a biography of the French philosopher Michel Foucault authored by the American philosopher James Miller. It was first published in the United States by Simon & Schuster in 1993.

The Passion of Michel Foucault
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJames Miller
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMichel Foucault
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication date
1993
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages491
ISBN978-0671695507

Within the book, Miller made the claim that Foucault's experiences in the gay sadomasochism community during the time he taught at Berkeley directly influenced his political and philosophical works.[1] Miller's ideas have been rebuked by certain Foucault scholars as being either simply misdirected,[2] a sordid reading of his life and works,[3][4] or as a politically motivated, intentional misreading.[5][6]

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Writing for The Boston Globe, book critic George Scialabba described The Passion of Michel Foucault as an "intensely interesting" work which provides an "astoundingly vivid though non-prurient description of (mainly homosexual) sadomasochism".[2] The historian of science Roger Smith writes that Miller turns Foucault's life "into a drama for our times".[7]

References

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  1. ^ Miller 1993.
  2. ^ a b Scialabba, George. Review: "The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller." Boston Globe, 30 January 1993.
  3. ^ Rubenstein, Diane (1995). "Indiscreet Jewels: Can We Talk About the Passion of Michel Foucault?". Modern Fiction Studies. 41 (3/4): 681–698. ISSN 0026-7724. JSTOR 26285759.
  4. ^ Williams, James S. The French Review March 1997, Vol. 70, No. 4 pp. 604–605
  5. ^ Foucault, Michel (August 15, 1999). Carrette, Jeremy R. Religion and culture By Michel Foucault. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719054679. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  6. ^ Halperin, David M. (April 10, 1997). Halperin, David M. Saint Foucault: towards a gay hagiography. Oup USA. ISBN 9780195111279. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  7. ^ Smith, Roger (1997). The Norton History of the Human Sciences. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 1006–7. ISBN 0-393-31733-1.

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