Critical Travels, Discursive Practices: Foucault in Tunis (1966-1968)

Authors

Ilka Kressner, University at Albany, State University of New YorkFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

10-2016

Abstract

In the extensive research on the oeuvre and life of Michel Foucault, the years he spent in Tunisia do not occupy a prominent role. More precisely, they have been mentioned only in passing. David Macey's six-hundred-page English biography, The Lives of Michel Foucault, discusses the time in Tunisia only briefly. In his biography in French, Didier Eribon dedicates some scarce seven pages to the time Foucault worked as visiting professor of philosophy at Tunis University. Eribon introduces his account as follows: "Why Tunis? This was, once again, a strange set of co-occurrences.""

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The following article was reproduced with permission of Rowman and Littlefield © 2016: Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the 21st Century edited by Catherine M. Soussloff New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. 165–180.

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Recommended Citation

Kressner, Ilka, "Critical Travels, Discursive Practices: Foucault in Tunis (1966-1968)" (2016). Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship. 32.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cas_llc_scholar/32