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Special Issue on Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol. 4, Confessions of The Foucault Studies Issue 29 April 2021 Special issue: History of Sexuality vol. 4 Confessions of the Flesh © Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Barbara Cruikshank, Bregham Dalgliesh, Knut Ove Eli- assen, Verena Erlenbusch, Alex Feldman, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Thomas Götselius, Robert Har- vey, Robin Holt, Leonard Richard Lawlor, Daniele Lorenzini, Edward McGushin, Hernan Camilo Pulido Martinez, Giovanni Mascaretti, Johanna Oksala, Clare O’Farrell, Rodrigo Castro Orellana, Eva Bendix Petersen, Alan Rosenberg, Annika Skoglund, Dianna Taylor, Martina Tazzioli, Andreas Dahl Jakobsen, Rachel Raffnsøe & Signe Macholm Müller 2021 ISSN: 1832-5203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi29.6206 Foucault Studies, No. 29 i-iii, April 2021 EDITORIAL Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Barbara Cruikshank, Bregham Dalgliesh, Knut Ove Eliassen, Verena Erlenbusch, Alex Feldman, Marius GuDmanD-Høyer, Thomas Götse- lius, Robert Harvey, Robin Holt, Leonard Richard Lawlor, Daniele Lorenzini, Edward McGushin, Hernan Camilo Pulido Martinez, Giovanni Mascaretti, Johanna Oksala, Clare O’Farrell, Rodrigo Castro Orellana, Eva Bendix Petersen, Alan Rosenberg, Annika SkoglunD, Dianna Taylor, Martina Tazzioli, Andreas Dahl Jakobsen, Rachel Raffnsøe & Signe Macholm Müller. With this issue of Foucault Studies, a markedly expanded editorial team is established. While Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Barbara Cruikshank, Knut Ove Eliassen, Verena Erlenbusch, Alex Feldman, Marius GuDmanD-Høyer, Thomas Götselius, Robert Harvey, Leonard Richard Lawlor, Daniele Lorenzini, Edward McGushin, Hernan Camilo Pulido Martinez, Giovanni Mascaretti, Johanna Oksala, Clare O’Farrell, RoDrigo Castro Orella- na, Eva BenDix Petersen, Alan Rosenberg, Dianna Taylor and Martina Tazzioli continue on the editorial team, Foucault Studies is Delighted to welcome Annika SkoglunD1, Bregham Dalgliesh2 and Robin Holt3 as co-editors. The addition of prominent scholars to the eDitorial team marks a noticeable advance for Foucault Studies. In aDDition to lenDing further scholarly anD institutional weight to the journal, the accretion decisively increases not only the diversity but also the breadth in geographical location, as well as the scholarly and social outlook of the editorial team. ScattereD throughout the world anD centrally situated within Different cultures anD re- ceptions of Foucault’s thought, the team of co-editors vouch both for susceptibility to various traDitions anD openness with regarD to various new approaches as they Develop around the globe. 1 Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Uppsala University. 2 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University. 3 Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School. EDITORIAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON FOUCAULT’S HISTORY OF SEXUALITY VOL. 4, CONFES- SIONS OF THE FLESH The editors of Foucault Studies are inordinately pleaseD to publish this issue of Foucault Studies containing a special issue on Foucault’s History of Sexuality Vol. 4, Confessions of the Flesh, guest edited by Agustín Colombo (Université Catholique de Louvain). It has been a great pleasure to work with our guest eDitor on this issue, as well as with Edward McGushin (Stonehill College), who has taken great pains to ensure a successful collabo- ration between the guest editor and Foucault Studies. The occasion of the special issue is the publication in English of Foucault’s long-awaited Histoire de la sexualité 4. Les aveux de la chair, brought out in French by Gallimard on Feb- ruary 8, 2018. With the English translation, the most recent aDDition to Foucault’s History of Sexuality is now available in both English and French, as is the full series of books that Foucault initiated with the publication of the first volume of his History of Sexuality, La volonté de savoir in December 1976, which was originally brought out in English under the title The Will to Knowledge in 1978. The publication of the English translation of course calls for an appraisal of the con- tents anD implications of the published volume. Yet, the posthumous appearance of a work that failed to materialize at the time of Foucault’s Death in 1984, and which subse- quently has often acquireD the status of a much sought after missing link in Foucault StuDies and in the series of books, may also be an opportune moment to take stock of Foucault’s entire history of sexuality. The following contributions to this special issue, written by an impressive lineup of prominent Foucault scholars, contribute to both ven- tures: • Philippe Büttgen (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): “Foucault’s Concept of Confession.” • Lynne Huffer (Emory University): “Foucault’s Queer Virgins: An Unfinished History in Fragments.” • James Bernauer (Boston College): “Fascinating Flesh: Revealing the Catholic Foucault.” • Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia University): “Foucault’s Keystone: Confessions of the Flesh: How the Fourth and Final Volume of The History of Sexuality Completes Foucault’s Critique of Modern Western Societies.” • Agustín Colombo (Université catholique De Louvain): “What Is a Desiring Man?” The ensuing introduction to the special issue authored by Agustín Colombo and Ed- ward McGushin will specify the content and contribution of the various articles. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The journal is most grateful to managing editors Asker Bryld Staunæs, Signe Macholm Müller, Rachel Raffnsøe and Andreas Dahl Jakobsen not only for their most reliable anD highly competent assistance in running the journal, but also for making this issue possi- Foucault Studies, No. 29, i-iii. ii EDITORIAL ble. We would also like to thank Stuart Pethick for copyediting this issue of Foucault Studies with great care anD meticulousness. Due to other competing professional and personal commitments, Asker Bryld Staunæs steps Down as managing editor with this issue. While wishing him all the best in the future, editors are sad to see this highly DeD- icated, adept anD hard-working managing editor go. Concomitantly, we welcome Ra- chel Raffnsøe and Andreas Dahl Jakobsen as new managing editors. Starting this spring, they have joined forces with the highly capable managing editor Signe Macholm Müller in ways that warrant confidence in the triunity. Finally, we would like to offer our thanks to graphic Design stuDent William LinDharDt (https://www.instagram.com/grafikerministeriet) for his generous assistance in creating the cover design of this special issue of Foucault Studies. The journal is sponsored by The Danish Council for Independent Research|Social Sciences and The Danish Council for Independent Research|Humanities as well as by The Joint Com- mittee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences. The editorial team is most grateful that these boDies have awarded funDing for Foucault Studies over the years anD have recently decided to do so in the coming time. The continuous funD- ing is an essential prerequisite for running the journal anD makes it possible for the edi- torial team to look anD plan aheaD. Foucault Studies, No. 29, i-iii. iii © Agustín Colombo & Edward McGushin ISSN: 1832-5203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi29.6209 Foucault Studies, No. 29, 1-5, April 2021 INTRODUCTION Special Issue: Confessions of the Flesh – Guest Editors’ Introduction Agustín Colombo, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Edward McGushin, Stonehill College, USA In February 2018, almost 35 years after Michel Foucault’s death, Histoire de la sexualité 4, Les Aveux de la chair was finally published in France. The book, dedicated to analysing the sexual ethics built up by the Church Fathers, made available for the first time a cru- cial part of Foucault’s research on History of Sexuality. Last February, the English transla- tion of the book by Robert Hurley was published by Pantheon Books. We are pleased to present this special issue devoted to Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality vol. 4, Confes- sions of the Flesh. The special issue includes original contributions that, from a variety of perspectives, investigate the main topics studied by Foucault in the final volume of His- tory of Sexuality (e.g., confession, virginity, desire). We hope this special issue will con- tribute to the reception of Michel Foucault’s long-awaited book; a reception inaugurated by the conference Foucault, les Pères, le sexe held at the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon- Sorbonne and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in February 2018. A further devel- opment of the contributions presented in that conference will be published in a forth- coming volume, Foucault, les Pères, le sexe. Autour des Aveux de la chair, edited by Philippe Büttgen, Philippe Chevallier, Agustín Colombo, and Arianna Sforini (Éditions de la Sorbonne, June 2021). Many of the contributions included in this special issue were first presented as papers at the Harvard Colloquium of Intellectual History, “Confessions of the Flesh: Michel Foucault’s final volume of the History of Sexuality”, held at the Minda de Gunzburg Center of European Studies at Harvard University in December 2019. We would like to thank the organisers, Anabelle Kim and Julian Bourg, and also the participants of the Colloquium for giving us the chance to work together and discuss Foucault’s Confes- sions, which, at that time, was not yet translated into English. ORIGINAL ARTICLES The special issue includes five original articles. Philippe Büttgen’s (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) article “Foucault’s concept of confession” starts by focusing on the rich semantic ambivalence of the French
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