precise seminar content may change from year to year

PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the 2015-16 academic year
– precise seminar content may change from year to year.
Programme of lectures:
Week 1:
Introduction and Problematisation: Desire in the Age of Biopower
Week 2: From Sovereign Power to Liberal Governmentality
Reading:
M. Foucault, “Society Must be Defended,” 14 January + 17 March 1976
M. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, 11 January-1 February 1978 + 5 April 1978 (pp.
349-358)
M. Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, Lectures 10 and 17 January 1979
Week 3: The Liberal Technology of Desire: Self-Interest and Utility
M. Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, Lectures 17 and 14 January 1979
Week 4: The Neoliberal Technology of Desire, or the Birth of the Homo Economicus
Reading:
M. Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, Lectures 14, 21, 28 March 1979.
Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe, eds., The Road From Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the
Neoliberal Thought Collective (Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press,
2009), Introduction.
Week 5: The Sexual Regime of Desire: Normal and Abnormal Instincts
Reading:
M. Foucault, Abnormal, 8 January-12 February 1975 + Discipline and Punish, Parts One and
Two.
M. Foucault, History of Sexuality I, Part Five.
Week 6: Reading week
Week7: The Birth of the Sexual Pervert:
Reading:
M. Foucault, History of Sexuality I, Parts Three and Four.
M. Foucault, Abnormal, 5-19 March 1975
Week 8: Instincts or Drives? From Psychiatry to Psychoanalysis
Reading: S. Freud, Three Essays on Sexuality [1905], in The Standard Edition of the
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (London: Vintage, 2001).
Week 9: The Symbolic Order of Desire: Recognition (I)
Week 10: The Symbolic Order of Desire: Recognition (II).
Bibliography:
Works by Foucault:
Les anormaux: Cours au Collège de France, 1974-1975 (Paris: Seuil/Gallimard, 199).
Translated by Graham Burchell as Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975,
(New York: Picador, 2003).
“Il faut défendre la société:” Cours au Collège de France, 1975-1976. Edited by
Alessandro Fontana and Mauro Bertani (Hautes Etudes/Gallimard/Seuil, 1997). Translated by
David Macey as “Society must be defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France (London:
Penguin Books, 2003).
Sécurité, territoire, population: Cours au Collège de France, 1977-1978. Edited by
Michel Senellart (Hautes Etudes/Gallimard/Seuil, 2004). Translated by Graham Burchell as
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007).
Naissance de la biopolitique: Cours au Collège de France, 1978-1979. Edited by
Michel Senellart (Hautes Etudes/Gallimard/Seuil, 2004). Translated by Graham Burchell as
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2008).
Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison (Paris: Gallimard, 1975). Translated by
Alan Sheridan as Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (London: Penguin, 1991).
Histoire de la sexualité I. La volonté de savoir (Paris: Gallimard, 1976). Translated by
Robert Hurley as The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction (New York: Random
House, 1978).