The Passion of Michel Foucault

1993 book by James Miller

The Passion of Michel Foucault

Cover of the first edition

Author| James Miller
Language| English
Subject| Michel Foucault
Publisher| Simon & Schuster

Publication date

| 1993
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages| 491
ISBN| 978-0671695507

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.

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]

## Reception

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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.

### Bibliography

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* Macey, David (1993). The Lives of Michel Foucault. Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0091753443.
* Miller, James (1993). The Passion of Michel Foucault. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671695507.

## Further reading

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* Collins, Stephen L. (1994). "Review of The Passion of Michel Foucault; The Lives of Michel Foucault: A Biography". The American Historical Review. 99 (2): 507–510. doi:10.2307/2167289. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 2167289.
* Dolan, Frederick M. (1993). "The Philosophical Laughter of Michel Foucault". Qui Parle. 6 (2): 131–149. ISSN 1041-8385. JSTOR 20685979.
* Lezra, Jacques (1994). "Foucault's Perfection". Contemporary Literature. 35 (3): 593–623. doi:10.2307/1208698. ISSN 0010-7484. JSTOR 1208698.
* Martin, Luther H. (1995). "The discourse of (Michel Foucault's) life: A review essay". Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 7 (1): 57–69. doi:10.1163/157006895X00216. ISSN 0943-3058. JSTOR 23555529.
* Rawson, Claude (1994). "The Masks of M. Foucault". The Sewanee Review. 102 (3): 471–476. ISSN 0037-3052. JSTOR 27546898.
* Sturm, Ernest (1996). "Review of The Passion of Michel Foucault". The French Review. 69 (5): 829–830. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 397171.

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Michel Foucault

Books|

* Mental Illness and Psychology (1954)
* Madness and Civilization (1961)
* The Birth of the Clinic (1963)
* Death and the Labyrinth (1963)
* The Order of Things (1966)
* This Is Not a Pipe (1968)
* The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)
* Discipline and Punish (1975)
* The History of Sexuality (1976–2018)

Essays, lectures,
dialogues and
anthologies|

* Introduction to Kant's Anthropology (1964)
* "What Is an Author?" (1969)
* Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France
* I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother (1973)
* Language, Counter-Memory, Practice (1977)
* Herculine Barbin (1978)
* Power/Knowledge (1980)
* Remarks on Marx (1980)
* Le Désordre des familles (1982)
* The Foucault Reader (1984)
* "What Is Enlightenment?" (1984)
* Politics, Philosophy, Culture (1988)
* Foucault Live (1996)
* The Politics of Truth (1997)
* Society Must Be Defended (1997)
* Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works Volume 1) (1997)
* Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (Essential Works Volume 2) (1998)
* Abnormal (1999)
* Power (Essential Works Volume 3) (2000)
* Fearless Speech (2001)
* The Hermeneutics of the Subject (2001)
* The Essential Foucault (2003)
* Psychiatric Power (2003)
* Security, Territory, Population (2004)
* The Birth of Biopolitics (2004)
* The Government of Self and Others (2008)
* The Courage of Truth (2009)
* Lectures on the Will to Know (2011)
* On the Government of the Living (2012)
* Subjectivity and Truth (2012)
* Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling (2013)
* On the Punitive Society (2015)

Concepts|

* Anti-psychiatry
* Author function
* Biopolitics
* Biopower
* Carceral archipelago
* Cultural imperialism
* Disciplinary institution
* Discontinuity
* Discourse analysis
* Dispositif
* Ecogovernmentality
* Episteme
* Genealogy
* Governmentality
* Heterotopia
* Interdiscourse
* Limit-experience
* Parrhesia
* Power (social and political)
* Postsexualism
* Sapere aude

Influence|

* "Cogito and the History of Madness" (Derrida)
* Foucauldian discourse analysis
* Foucault (Deleuze)
* The Passion of Michel Foucault (Miller)
* Giorgio Agamben
* Gary Gutting
* Thomas Lemke
* James Miller
* Paul Rabinow
* Claude Raffestin
* Nikolas Rose
* Foucault in Iran

Related articles|

* Bibliography
* Foucault–Habermas debate
* Chomsky–Foucault debate
* Daniel Defert
* François Ewald
* Alan Sheridan

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