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- Title
Foucault in Berkeley and Magnitogorsk: Totalitarianism and the Limits of Liberal Critique.
- Authors
ZIMMERMAN, ANDREW
- Abstract
Returning to Stephen Kotkin's Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization almost two decades after its publication allows us to take stock, from a slight temporal distance, of the reception in our discipline of the work of Michel Foucault. Magnetic Mountain is the one of the books that came out of a project that Kotkin and a number of other students began under Foucault's direction at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983 (p. xviii). Foucault's work in California occurred during a particular turn in his political thinking, a moment when he experimented with liberal alternatives to the left theories of the first decades of his career. Kotkin's book is not simply an application of a general Foucauldianism, but rather of a specific California Foucault.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC Mountain: Stalinism As a Civilization (Book); KOTKIN, Stephen; FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; LIBERALISM; SUBJECT (Philosophy); STALINISM; UNIVERSITY of California, Berkeley
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777314000101