Foucault Studies, Number 22: January 2017:
Foucault and Roman Antiquity: Foucault's RomeISSN: 1832-5203
Cover photo © Shreyaa Bhatt
Shreyaa Bhatt writes about the photo:
The Roman forum was the administrative and commercial centre of Roman civic life. Today, the site is filled with a deep, but puzzling, sense of history. Existing structures enmesh original ancient ruins dating from the Republican and Imperial periods with Christian and Renaissance facades. At the centre of the photo is the Temple of Saturn, originally dedicated in 497 BCE, and rebuilt several times over the course of the next approximately 800 years due to fire. To the left of temple is the triumphal Arch of Septimius Severus, erected in 203 CE and suggestively built in front of the Temple of Concord to imply the restoration of peace following the victories against the Parthians. Behind the arch is the Curia, the meeting place of the Roman senate, the building works of which commenced in 44 BCE by Julius Caesar and completed in 29 BCE by Augustus. The building was in use as a senatorial curia up until 630 CE, when it was converted into the church of Sant’ Adriano by Pope Honorius I. Between the major monuments which still stand, or partially stand, today are broken columns, fragmentary bases of statues and remains of old paths and stairwells, leaving a chaotic and confusing sense of a monumental past, which, in its own day would have been extraordinarily polished and orderly.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. | 1-7 |
Special Issue on Foucault and Roman Antiquity: Foucault's Rome
Articles
Verena Erlenbusch | 134-152 |
Navid Pourmokhtari | 177-207 |
Translations
Cuvier’s Situation in the History of Biology Lynne Huffer | 208-237 |
Interviews
Foucault and Intellectual History: An interview with Stuart Elden on his book FOUCAULT's LAST DECADE (Polity Press, 2016) Antoinette Koleva | 238-253 |
Julian Reid on Foucault – applying his work on war, resilience, imagination and political subjectivity Kristian Haug | 254-262 |
Book Reviews
Stuart Elden, Foucault’s Last Decade (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016), 272pp, pb £17.99, ISBN: 9780745683928 Kurt Borg | 263-268 |
Paul Colilli, Agamben and the Signature of Astrology. Spheres of Potentiality (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015), i-xx, 214 pp. hard cover, $85.00 (US) ISBN: 978-1-4985-0595-6 Alain Beaulieu | 269-272 |
Peter Sloterdijk, Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault, trans. Thomas Dunlap (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013), ISBN: 978-0231153737 Jonathan G. Wald | 273-275 |
