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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Philosophy Seminars 2013</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Vanessa Lemm</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Professor of Philosophy (UNSW) </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">TITLE: </span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">A Biopolitical Reading of the Philosophical Life in Michel Foucault’s Le courage de
la vérité?</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">PLACE: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown" target="_blank">[How
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Abstract:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">This paper investigates the relation between truth and the philosophical life in Michel Foucault’s Le courage de la vérité from the perspective of the Nietzschean question: how truth can be
incorporated or embodied (einverleibt)? In contrast to the Arendtian idea that the philosophical life was a life that allowed a distance to the body, in order to avoid the problem of totalitarianism, the filling of the empty place of power or sovereignty by
the “body” of the People, or what Esposito calls the closure of the political body on itself, this papers argues that in Foucault, and in particular, in his analysis of the philosophical life of the cynics, we finds an idea of the philosophical life where
truth is incorporated or embodied. Here the immunitary and communitary resources of embodiment are shown to be necessary for the uniting of life (zoe) and philosophy so as to make possible a form of life (bios) that resists and overcomes the totalitarian government
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">BIO: Prof. Vanessa Lemm (UNSW) is the author of
<i>Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality </i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">of the Human<span style="color:black"> Being</span></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
(New York: Fordham 2009, Spanish trans. with Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, 2011; German trans. with Diaphanes, Berlin/Zuerich, 2012). She has published a great number of articles on Nietzsche and contemporary political thought. She
is currently working on the notion of justice in Nietzsche and Heidegger as well as the relation between life and community in Nietzsche and Esposito.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">For the entire 2013 program of the Philosophy seminar series at UWS see:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2013" target="_blank">http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2013</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">University of Western Sydney</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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