Idea report

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The idea report is a term coined by Michel Foucault in 1978 and describes a special form of report in which a collaboration between journalists and intellectuals was envisaged. Journalists and intellectuals should go to places where ideas arise or pass away and, in their idea reports, report on both the events and the ideas that trigger the events.

“It is a matter of witnessing the birth of ideas and experiencing their explosive power, and this not in the books in which they are presented, but in the events in which their power is shown and in the struggles that are for or against them be led. "

- Michel Foucault : The "Ideas Report".

history

In May 1978, the Italian publisher Rizzoli asked Foucault to write regularly about current developments for the Italian daily Corriere della Sera . Foucault initially refused and suggested that a group of intellectuals be entrusted with this task. In June 1978 he developed the program for the idea reports with the head of the Paris office of Corriere della sera. Foucault saw reports from:

However, only the reports by:

Foucault traveled to Tehran twice (September and November 1978) to attend the revolutionary events and wrote eight idea reports for the Corriere della sera, all of which appeared as the cover story on page one of the newspaper. In these reports, on the one hand, he described his impressions of the events and, on the other hand, he tried to shed light on the influence of Shiite Islam on the events in line with the concept of the idea report .

controversy

Foucault's only report on ideas published in France in Le Nouvel Observateur sparked controversy among readers and colleagues alike: he was accused of having blind enthusiasm and an uncritical attitude towards the demands of the Islamic revolution. Foucault did not respond to the objections, but referred to the polemical and emotionally charged character of the replies.

After Ayatollah Khomeini came to power , Foucault only made two public statements on this subject: In an open letter to Mehdi Bāzargān that appeared in Le Nouvel Observateur, he urged the Prime Minister at the time to meet his responsibilities and ensure that human rights are respected in Iran; In his last article in Le Monde on the revolution in Iran, he illuminated the phenomenon of revolt - regardless of its realpolitical consequences - and expressed his respect for the courage of the people to stand up despite all the danger.

reception

In the English-speaking world in particular, Foucault's idea reports have increased in number since 2000 and received interdisciplinary coverage. Most of the texts for these works by Foucault deal critically with another concept of the spiritualization of politics that he developed in the idea reports - the influence of Shiite Islam, spirituality, on the emergence of political consciousness.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel Foucault: The "Ideas Report". In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits and Ecrites. Volume III. 1976 - 1979. Ed .: D. Defert and F. Ewald with the collaboration of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondeck, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M. 2003, p. 886. ISBN 978-3-518-58437-8
  2. ↑ * Michel Foucault: The army when the earth quakes. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits et Escrites. Volume III, 1976 - 1979. Edited by: D. Deffert and F. Ewald with the assistance of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondek, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003, pp. 829-838.
    • Michel Foucault: The Shah is a hundred years ago. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits et Escrites. Volume III, 1976 - 1979. Edited by: D. Deffert and F. Ewald with the assistance of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondek, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003, pp. 850-856.
    • Michel Foucault: Tehran's faith against the Shah. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits et Escrites. Volume III, 1976 - 1979. Edited by: D. Deffert and F. Ewald with the assistance of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondek, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003, pp. 856-862.
    • Michel Foucault: Revolt with Bare Hands. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits et Escrites. Volume III, 1976 - 1979. Edited by: D. Deffert and F. Ewald with the assistance of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondek, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003 pp. 878-882.
    • Michel Foucault: Dispute in the opposition. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits and Ecrites. Volume III. 1976 - 1979. Ed .: D. Defert and F. Ewald with the collaboration of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondeck, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003, pp. 882-885.
    • Michel Foucault: The Iranian Revolution is spreading by means of a tape cassette. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits and Ecrites. Volume III. 1976 - 1979. Ed .: D. Defert and F. Ewald with the collaboration of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondeck, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003, pp. 888-893.
    • Michel Foucault: The Mythical Head of the Revolt in Iran. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits and Ecrites. Volume III. 1976 - 1979. Ed .: D. Defert and F. Ewald with the collaboration of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondeck, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003; Pp. 894-898.
    • Michel Foucault: Powder Keg Islam. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits and Ecrites. Volume III. 1976 - 1979. Ed .: D. Defert and F. Ewald with the collaboration of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondeck, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003, pp. 949-952. ISBN 978-3-518-58372-2
  3. ↑ For the background to the development of the idea reports, compare: Daniel Defert, Francoise Ewald, Jaques Lagrange: Zeittafel. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits et Escrites. Volume I, 1954 - 1969. Edited by: D. Deffert and F. Ewald with the assistance of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondek, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003 pp., 15-106. ISBN 978-3-518-58372-2
  4. ↑ Michel Foucault: What do the Iranians dream of? In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits et Escrites. Volume III, 1976 - 1979. Edited by: D. Deffert and F. Ewald with the assistance of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondek, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003 pp. 862-870. ISBN 978-3-518-58372-2
  5. ^ Atossa H .: An Iranian Woman Writes. In: In: J. Afary and KB Anderson: Foucault and the Iranian Revolution. Gender and Seduction of Islam. Chicago, 2005, pp. 209-210. ISBN 0-226-00785-5
  6. ↑ Claudie and Jacques Broyelle: What Are the Philosophers Dreaming About? What Michel Foucault Mistaken about the Iranian Revolution? In: J. Afary and KB Anderson: Foucault and the Iranian Revolution. Gender and Seduction of Islam. Chicago, 2005, pp. 247-249. ISBN 0-226-00785-5
  7. ↑ Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault's answer to an Iranian reader. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits and Ecrites. Volume III. 1976 - 1979. Ed .: D. Defert and F. Ewald with the collaboration of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondeck, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003. S. 887. and Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault and Iran. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits and Ecrites. Volume III. 1976 - 1979. Ed .: D. Defert and F. Ewald with the collaboration of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondeck, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003 pp. 952-953. ISBN 978-3-518-58372-2
  8. ↑ Michel Foucault: Open letter to Mehdi Bazargan. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits and Ecrites. Volume III. 1976 - 1979. Ed .: D. Defert and F. Ewald with the collaboration of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondeck, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003. pp. 974-977. ISBN 978-3-518-58372-2
  9. ↑ Michel Foucault: Pointless to get up. In: Michel Foucault: Writings in four volumes. Dits and Ecrites. Volume III. 1976 - 1979. Ed .: D. Defert and F. Ewald with the collaboration of J. Lagrange. Translated from the French by M. Bischoff, H.-D. Gondeck, H. Kocyba and J. Schröder. Frankfurt a. M., 2003. pp. 987-992. ISBN 978-3-518-58372-2
  10. ↑ see also:
    • Pal Ahluwalia: Post-structuralism's colonial roots: Michel Foucault. In Social Identities: Journal for Study of Race, Nation and Culture 16 (September 2010), pp. 587-606.
    • Janet Afary: Shi'i Narratives of Karbalâ and Christian Rites of Penance: Michel Foucault and the Culture of the Iranian Revolution, 1978-1979. In: Radical History Review 78 (Spring 2003), pp. 7-35.
    • Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson: Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution. In: New Politics 10 (Summer 2004), pp. 1–10.
    • Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson: Foucault and the Iranian Revolution. Gender and the Seduction of Islamism. Chicago 2005. ISBN 0-226-00785-5
    • Alain Beaulieu: Toward a liberal Utopia: The connection between Foucault's reporting on the Iranian Revolution and te ethical turn. In: Philosophy and Social Criticism 36 (2010), pp. 801-818.
    • James W. Bernauer: Foucault and Theology: the Politics of Religious Experience. Ashgate 2004. ISBN 0-7546-3353-5
    • Jeremy R. Carrette: Foucault and Religion: Spiritual Corporality and Political Spirituality. London 2000. ISBN 0-415-20259-0
    • Ulrika Martensson: The Power of Subject: Weber, Foucault and Islam. In Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 16 (Summer 2007), pp. 97-136.
    • Slavoj Zizek: Intellectuals, Not Gadflies. In: Critical Inquiry 34 (Winter 2008), pp. 21-35.
    For the reception in German-speaking countries see:

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