Foucault and Roman Antiquity : Foucault's Rome
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 27607372
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Foucault Studies
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 29 - Classics
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This submission comprises a guest-edited special issue of the interdisciplinary and international journal Foucault Studies (Vol. 22, January 2017). It represents the first extended treatment of Foucault's engagement with Rome, considering the importance of Rome for Foucault's thought, the influence of Foucault on and reading of Foucault by Classical scholars, and the ways in which Classical thought and history might engage with Foucault. It also offers insight into the philosophical agenda of the late Foucault, considers Foucault against theories of reception, and analyses the political and philosophical content of Foucault's later work in conjunction with Classical texts. It is innovative in methods and scholarly topic. The project – entitled ‘Foucault and Roman Antiquity: Foucault's Rome’ - was entirely devised by Alston and his co-editor Bhatt, who commissioned the contributions, guided and edited those contributions, as well as making significant individual contributions themselves. Alston provided two key essays: the first (‘Foucault and Roman Antiquity’, pp. 8-30) places Foucault's Classical work in the context of Foucault's overall philosophical trajectory, and in particular in the Habermas-Foucault controversy; the second (‘Foucault’s Empire of the Free;, pp. 94-112) looks at the issue of freedom in an imperial text through a comparison with readings from Tacitus.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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