Olivier Razac

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Olivier Razac (* 1973 ) is a French philosopher who orientates himself on the teachings of Michel Foucault .

Olivier Razac studied and teaches at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis . He researches and publishes on the genealogy of biopower and biopolitics and is particularly interested in the mechanisms of integration and exclusion . His book Political History of Barbed Wire deals with the social inclusions and exclusions that were historically carried out by the barbed wire; it has been translated into English and German and has been reviewed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others . Razac received his doctorate in 2004 under Alain Brossat with a thesis on "great health" ( grande santé ) under Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze .

Book publications

  • Histoire politique du barbelé: la prairie, la tranchée, le camp . Paris: La Fabrique Editions, 2000. ISBN 2-913372-06-6 . German translation: Political history of the barbed wire. Prairie, trenches, camp. Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes, 2003. ISBN 978-3-935300-31-5
  • L'écran et le zoo: spectacle et domestication, des expositions coloniales à Loft Story. Paris: Denoël, 2002. ISBN 2-207-25170-5
  • La grande santé. Paris: Climats, 2006. ISBN 2-08-213130-0
  • Avec Foucault après Foucault: disséquer la société de contrôle. Paris: l'Harmattan, 2008. ISBN 978-2-296-05630-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Bernhard: Artificial blackberry bushes . Review in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 6, 2003 and a note from Perlentaucher , reproduced on the buecher.de website