biopolitics

The Experience of Culture: Eurocentric Limits and Openings in Foucault

The Experience of Culture: Eurocentric Limits and Openings in Foucault

Jon SOLOMON

5 November 2009

With the relaunching of Transeuropéennes in its new form, the journal is squarely poised to engage a prolonged reflection on one of the key antagonisms of our times: the relation between translation and cultural regions. I would like to share a line of interrogation that I recently developed in relation to a critique of Michel Foucault’s eurocentrism that may help shed peripheral light on some of the issues at stake.

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