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No. 17 (2024): Foucault: 40 years after
James Bernauer, S.J., is a Jesuit priest currently Professor Emeritus at the Boston College Philosophy Department. He was Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College. His fields of interest include Holocaust Studies, German Jewry, and the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt. He is the author of many publications on Foucault, including Michel Foucault’s force of flight: towards an ethics of thought (1990). He co-edited The Final Foucault (1988) (with David Rasmussen), and Michel Foucault and Theology: the politics of the religion experience (2004) (with Jeremy Carrette). He is also the author of Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuit, Jews, and Holocaust remembrance (2020), and Auschwitz and absolution: the case of the commandant and the confessor (2023), among many other publications on Jewish-Christian relations.
Agustín Colombo holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis (France) and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). He has been postdoctoral researcher in several universities (Boston College, USA; Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (F.R.S. - FNRS), postdoctoral researcher at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; and Ayuda María Zambrano-Next Generation postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid). He is currently researcher and teaches philosophy at the Department of Filosofía y Sociedad at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid under the Ayuda César Nombela of the Community of Madrid. By focusing on religion, his research develops the critique of the subject built up by contemporary French philosophy, particularly Michel Foucault. He is the author of Christianisme et subjectivité chez Michel Foucault (Hermann, 2023). His work has been published in journals such as Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, Revue théologique de Louvain, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and Foucault Studies.
Martín Bernales Odino holds a PhD in Philosophy (Boston College) and is a lawyer (Universidad de Chile). He is currently assistant professor at the Institute of Theology and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Universidad Alberto Hurtado where he works on Christian concepts, governmental and scientific rationalities from an archaeological and genealogical approach. He is researcher in charge of the initiation Fondecyt N°11240853 entitled “Hacia una arqueología de la pobreza: el nacimiento del pobre moderno como tipo socio-político de gente (1778-1863)”, funded by the National Agency for Research and Development (Chile).
Interview with James Bernauer by Martín Bernales Odino and Agustín Colombo.