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Foucault’s Victorians, the Repressive Hypothesis and Their Deleuzian Implications

Foucault famously asserted that „perhaps one day this century will be known as Deleuzian, “ thereby implying that his own investment in the twentieth-century refashioning of history was to be assessed against Deleuze’s positions. In order to explore this opening I propose to discuss volume I of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, particularly the critical function it attaches to Victorian culture, against Deleuze’s argument about the superiority of Anglo-American literature. What interests me is the ensuing assemblage of thought where Foucault’s and Deleuze’s “English” figures and formulae stand to be recalibrated, reconstituting in the process the platform from where to approach both Deleuze’s take on philosophy and Foucault’s on history and sexuality.

Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; John Stuart Mill; gender; sexuality; revolution; the Victorians

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