Asperger’s poststructuralism debate

Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism, is the subject of this website which is having a debate about poststructuralism and social construction. It would be of interest to people like Ian Hacking, who as I wrote in an earlier post has made a study of autism and the idea of “making up people.”
Has anyone given [...]

The Pope takes on Foucault

The Pope’s new book, written under his ecclesiastical title and his personal name of Joseph Ratzinger is called Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration. It has been reviewed in Commonweal and on this St. Benedicts’s Day (Ratzinger’s papal name) it might be worth pointing out the significance of this [...]

New criminology paper uses Foucault

A new paper in the British Journal of Criminology uses what it calls Foucault’s concept of “indirect rule” to advance criminological analysis. This seesm to be another critical realist analysis.
Full abstract below.