Professor Amy Allen and Bernard E. Harcourt discuss “Critical Reading: Theory and Praxis”

During this seminar with Professor Amy Allen we will read and discuss four texts:

• Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.” In The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow, 76-100. New York, Pantheon Books, 1984.
• Paul Veyne, “Foucault revolutionizes history,” in Arnold Ira Davidson (ed.), Foucault and His Interlocutors. University of Chicago Press. pp. 146-82 (1997)
• Amy Allen, “’Psychoanalysis and Ethnology’ Revisited: Foucualt’s Historicization of History,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 55, Spindel Supplement, 2017:31-46.
• Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Illusion of Influence: On Foucault, Nietzsche, and a Fundamental Misunderstanding” (May 24, 2019). Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-627 (2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3393827

We will address the question: How can we use these texts critically? What can we do with them? How can we put them to work?