.... It then proceeds to major representations of sympathy in early modern Europe and seventeenth-century England in particular, highlighting those of Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, and John Spencer. With the development of the new sciences in the seventeenth century, sympathy did not simply disappear, as Michel Foucault...

... Werner morphosis Newman John Henry Vit Macr Peter brother of Macrina bio power Foucault Michel History of Sexuality asceticism seed semen Gregory of Nyssa Epektasis Song of Songs Macrina Michel Foucault Basil of Caesarea Moses Milk Paideia Bio-power Salvation is first of all...

...This chapter attempts to clarify the concept of national mysticism by focusing on the place of “power” within it. It explains that power was one of the keywords of political and psychological culture in the twentieth century and this was backed by philosophers such as Nietzsche and Foucault, who...

... in terms of their adequacy in understanding and explaining states in Africa. Postcolonial theorists, such as Achille Mbembe and Jean-François Bayart, influenced by Michel Foucault, are introduced to provide a perspective on the state which starts from diverse practices and governmental rationalities...

...This chapter discusses Max Weber’s approach to the influence of Christian beliefs and practices on economic behavior, and ties it to the sort of comparison of forms of ‘spirituality’ offered by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in his Collège de France lectures. The chapter explores...

... services, and significant investments into hydropower, solar, and wind energy. It deploys a theoretical framework for analysing green states in Africa inspired by Michel Foucault and postcolonial theory, which focuses attention on the governance and contestation of land and territory, populations...

...Engaging with Foucault’s ideas on sexuality, this book demonstrates how conservative organizations and the Supreme Court have misunderstood Christian beliefs on marriage and the family. It challenges the long-held assumption that American values are based on “Judeo-Christian” norms, by comparing...

... Jr morality aesthetics and narratives counternarratives and postmodernism progress definitions of sciences The Archaeology of Knowledge Foucault colonialism discontinuity discourse theory Foucault Michel The Laws of Peoples Rawls liberal theory normativity diversity and pluralism...

... and biotechnology and offers a commentary on Paolo Palladino's review of Medicine in the Twentieth Century. It also considers the influence of Michel Foucault's anti-essentialist take on the body on the ground for writing the history of the body. This chapter also considers the essentialist re...

... and suggests that they cannot claim to be a coherent continuation of Michel Foucault's thinking on biopower because they fail to capture the inherent historicity of his thinking. biopolitics “Biopower Today ” Biosocieties Nadesan Majia Holmer Rabinow Paul Rose Nikolas Holocaust tendentiousness biopower...

..., willing what the small society of his family will look like after he is gone. Tax lists can be interpreted, after Foucault, as the state exercising discipline by naming every person and exacting a tax. They also reveal the eminence of the male head of the household and the obscurity of women, children...