Foucault on tragedy

Philosophy & Social Criticism

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 573-584

  Cutrofello, Andrew ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeschylus; Euripides; Foucault; Nietzsche; Racine; Shakespeare; tragedy

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247659070     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0191453705055490     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and other writings, ed. Raymond Geuss and Ronald Speirs, trans. Ronald Speirs (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 5.
2. Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Vintage Books, 1988), p. ix. Hereafter cited in the text as MC. The quoted passage, like the rest of the preface, is in italics.
3. Michel Foucault, ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’, trans. Robert Hurley, in Michel Foucault, Power: Essential Works of Foucault 1954–1984, Volume Three, ed. James D. Faubion (New York: New Press, 1994). pp. 17–18, 31–2, 23, 31, 32, 5, 16.
4. Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech, ed. Joseph Pearson (New York: Semiotext(e), 2001). p. 38, 41, 37–8, 11, 57–74, 91, 102, 92.
5. Michel Foucault, ‘Society Must Be Defended’: Lectures at the Collège de France 1975–76, ed. Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana, trans. David Macey (New York: Picador, 2003), p. 175. Hereafter cited in the text as SMBD.
6. SMBD 174. Cf. Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France 1974–1975, ed. Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni, trans. Graham Burchell (New York: Picador, 2003): ‘This problem of the infamy of sovereignty, of the discredited sovereign, is, after all, Shakespeare's problem: It is precisely the problem posed by the royal tragedies, without, it seems to me, the sovereign's infamy ever having been theorized’ (13).
7. All references to Shakespeare are to The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd edn (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
8. Ernst Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology, with a new preface by William Chester Jordan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. 24–41.
9. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage, 1995), p. 29.
10. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1, Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1990), pp. 15ff.
11. Aeschylus, Aeschylus I: Oresteia, trans. Richmond Lattimore (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1953), p. 35. Hereafter cited in the body of the text as O.
12. ‘It is of little importance on exactly which day in the autumn of 1888 Nietzsche went mad for good, and after which his texts no longer afford philosophy but psychiatry: all of them, including the postcard to Strindberg, belong to Nietzsche, and all are related to The Birth of Tragedy’ (MC 287–8).