The issue of the senses and sensual perception in Michel
Foucault s thought has been a source of prolific discussion already
for quite some time. Often, Foucault has been accused of
overemphasizing the centrality of sight, and has been portrayed as
yet another thinker representative of Western ocularcentricism.
This innovative new work seeks to challenge this portrait by
presenting an alternative view of Foucault as a thinker for whom
the sound, voice, hearing, and listening, the auditory-sonorous,
actually did matter.
Illustrating how the auditory-sonorous relates most integrally
to the most pertinent issues of Foucault - the intertwinement and
confrontations of power, knowledge, and resistance - the book both
presents novel readings of some of Foucault s most widely read and
commented-on works (such as Discipline and Punish, the first volume
of History of Sexuality), and discusses the variety of his
lectures, essays, and interviews, some of which have not been noted
before.
Moving beyond a commentary on Foucault, Siisiainen goes on to
examine other philosophers and political thinkers (including Roland
Barthes, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Ranci re) in this context in
order to bring to the fore the potentials in Foucault s work for
the generation of a new perspective for the political genealogy of
the sound, hearing, and listening, approaching the former as a key
locus of contemporary political struggles.
This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in
a range of areas including political theory, philosophy, and
cultural studies.
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