François Ewald
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François (Robert) Ewald (born 29 April 1946, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French philosopher. An assistant to Michel Foucault in the 1970s, he has overseen the publication of much of Foucault's literary estate. Ewald's own work has applied Foucault's notion of governmentality to a history of the welfare state.[1]
Life
Ewald studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in the mid-1960s. After the events of May 1968, he joined the Maoist Gauche prolétarienne (GP). Teaching philosophy at a Bruay-en-Artois lycée in the early 1970s, he was at the centre of the political drama which unfolded when a middle-class lawyer was arrested for the mutilation and murder of a local miner's daughter: La Cause du Peuple, the GP's paper, publicized the case with the headline 'Bruay: And Now They Are Massacring Our Children!'[2]
Foucault met Ewald when visiting to inspect the scene of the murder in June 1972, and after the GP imploded Ewald turned to Foucault to reconstruct his intellectual outlook. Ewald was Foucault's assistant from 1976 until Foucault's death in 1984, and has co-edited posthumous volumes of Foucault's writings and lectures.
Invited by Daniel Defert to contribute to a government report on workplace accidents,[3] Ewald came to view the 1898 Law on Accidents at Work — with an actuarial concept of risk replacing juridical concepts of responsibility — as crucial to the modern welfare state. Ewald interpreted Foucault's analysis of power as showing the need for political struggle without any "reference to the Revolution",[4] and moved closer to the New Philosophers in a call "to marry the points of view of Nietzsche and Solzhenitsyn".[5] By the early 1990s Ewald "had become the house intellectual of the French insurance industry and ideological standard-bearer of the Medef, France's primary employers' organization."[1]
François Ewald was part of the "Coppens commission" who prepared the French Charter for the Environment of 2004. In 2006 he received the Legion d'Honneur.
Works
- L'état providence [The Welfare State], Paris: B. Grasset, 1986.
- (ed. with Florence Bellivier et al.) Naissance du Code civil: la raison du législateur [The birth of the Civil Code: the legislator's reason], Paris: Flammarion, 1989.
- 'Norms, Discipline and the Law', Representations 30 (Spring 1990), pp. 138–61
- 'Insurance and Risk', in Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon & Peter Miller, eds., The Foucault Effect, Chicago, 1991
- Histoire de l'Etat providence: Les Origines de la solidarité [History of the welfare state: the origins of solidarity], 1996.
- (ed. with Jean-Hervé Lorenzi) Encyclopédie de l'assurance [Encyclopedia of insurance], Paris: Economica, 1997.
- (ed. with T. McGleenan & Urban Wiesing) Genetics and insurance, Oxford, UK: Bios Scientific Publishers, 1999.
- 'Foucault and the contemporary scene', Philosophy and Social Criticism 25: 3 (1999), pp. 81–91
- Le principe de précaution [The precautionary principle], 2001.
References
- ^ a b Michael C. Behrent, Accidents Happen: François Ewald, the "Antirevolutionary" Foucault, and the Intellectual Politics of the French Welfare State[permanent dead link], The Journal of Modern History 82 (September 2010), pp.585-624
- ^ La Cause de Peuple, 1 May 1972. Cited in 'Showdown at Bruay-en-Artois', ch. 1 of Richard Wolin, The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s, Princeton University Press, 2010.
- ^ Daniel Defert; Jacques Donzelot; François Ewald; Gerard Maillet; Catherine Mevel (1977). Socialisation du risque et pouvoir dans l'entreprise: Histoire des transformations politiques et juridiques qui ont permis la légalisation du risque professionnel. Paris.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Ewald, 'Foucault, une pensée sans aveu', Magazine littéraire 127-8 (1977), pp.23-6. Cited in Behrent, p.604.
- ^ Ewald, 'Il ya tant d'aurores qui n'ont pas encore lui...', Le Débat 4 (1980), pp.31-33. Cited in Behrent, p.604.
External links
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- Mental Illness and Psychology (1954)
- Madness and Civilization (1961)
- The Birth of the Clinic (1963)
- Death and the Labyrinth (1963)
- The Order of Things (1966)
- This Is Not a Pipe (1968)
- The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)
- Discipline and Punish (1975)
- The History of Sexuality (1976–2018)
dialogues and
anthologies
- Introduction to Kant's Anthropology (1964)
- "What Is an Author?" (1969)
- Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France
- I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother (1973)
- Language, Counter-Memory, Practice (1977)
- Herculine Barbin (1978)
- Power/Knowledge (1980)
- Remarks on Marx (1980)
- Le Désordre des familles (1982)
- The Foucault Reader (1984)
- "What Is Enlightenment?" (1984)
- Politics, Philosophy, Culture (1988)
- Foucault Live (1996)
- The Politics of Truth (1997)
- Society Must Be Defended (1997)
- Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works Volume 1) (1997)
- Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (Essential Works Volume 2) (1998)
- Abnormal (1999)
- Power (Essential Works Volume 3) (2000)
- Fearless Speech (2001)
- The Hermeneutics of the Subject (2001)
- The Essential Foucault (2003)
- Psychiatric Power (2003)
- Security, Territory, Population (2004)
- The Birth of Biopolitics (2004)
- The Government of Self and Others (2008)
- The Courage of Truth (2009)
- Lectures on the Will to Know (2011)
- On the Government of the Living (2012)
- Subjectivity and Truth (2012)
- Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling (2013)
- On the Punitive Society (2015)
- Anti-psychiatry
- Author function
- Biopolitics
- Biopower
- Carceral archipelago
- Cultural imperialism
- Disciplinary institution
- Discontinuity
- Discourse analysis
- Dispositif
- Ecogovernmentality
- Episteme
- Genealogy
- Governmentality
- Heterotopia
- Interdiscourse
- Limit-experience
- Parrhesia
- Power (social and political)
- Postsexualism
- Sapere aude
- "Cogito and the History of Madness" (Derrida)
- Foucauldian discourse analysis
- Foucault (Deleuze)
- The Passion of Michel Foucault (Miller)
- Giorgio Agamben
- Gary Gutting
- Thomas Lemke
- James Miller
- Paul Rabinow
- Claude Raffestin
- Nikolas Rose
- Foucault in Iran