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On the Interest in the Art of Loving: Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica 论对爱的艺术的兴趣:理查德·舒斯特曼的《情色艺术》

Foucault Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-12 DOI: 10.22439/fs.vi31.6454

Leonardo V. Distaso

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Sex, Emancipation, and Aesthetics: Ars Erotica and the Cage of Eurocentric Modernity 性、解放与美学:色情艺术与欧洲中心现代性的牢笼

Foucault Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-12 DOI: 10.22439/fs.vi31.6456

R. Shusterman

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Foucault’s Outside: Contingency, May-Being, and Revolt 福柯的外在：偶然性、可能存在与反抗

Foucault Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-12 DOI: 10.22439/fs.vi31.6466

L. Martin

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The Problem of Concealment: Reformism, Information Struggles, and the Position of Intellectuals 隐蔽问题：改良主义、信息斗争与知识分子的地位

Foucault Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-12 DOI: 10.22439/fs.vi31.6460

Delio Vásquez

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Mona Lilja, Constructive Resistance: Repetitions, Emotions, and Time. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. 184. Mona Lilja，《建设性抵抗：重复、情绪和时间》。伦敦：Rowman&Littlefield，2021。第184页。

Foucault Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-12 DOI: 10.22439/fs.vi31.6470

Marco Checci

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Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora, The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution. London: Verso, 2021. Pp. 256. 米切尔·迪恩和丹尼尔·萨莫拉，《最后一个人服用LSD：福柯与革命的终结》。伦敦：Verso，2021。第256页。

Foucault Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-12 DOI: 10.22439/fs.vi31.6473

Jasper Friedrich

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Beauty between Repression and Coercion: A Few Thoughts on Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love 压抑与胁迫之间的美——对舒斯特曼《性爱狂：古典爱情艺术中的性与身体美学》的几点思考

Foucault Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-12 DOI: 10.22439/fs.vi31.6455

Leszek Koczanowicz

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David Macey, The Lives of Foucault. A Biography. London: Verso, [1993] 2019. Pp. 613. 大卫·梅西，福柯的生活。传记。伦敦：Verso，[1993]2019。第613页。

Foucault Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-12 DOI: 10.22439/fs.vi31.6475

M. Gane

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Critique in Truth: Bernard Harcourt’s Critique & Praxis 真理中的批判:伯纳德·哈考特的《批判与实践》

Foucault Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-14 DOI: 10.22439/fs.vi30.6266

Colin Koopman

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The Carnival of the Mad: Foucault’s Window into the Origin of Psychology 疯狂者的狂欢：福柯探索心理学起源的窗口

Foucault Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-14 DOI: 10.22439/fs.vi30.6268

Hannah Lyn Venable

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