Haunting Foucault: Genealogical Revolution and the Specter of Islam

• In Event: Religion, Political Theory and IR

Brief Overview

Michel Foucault’s support for the Iranian Revolution reveals a new way of approaching his theories of macropolitical action rooted in his (mis)understanding of the nature of Ayatollah Khomeini’s notion of Islamic Government, the vilayat-i faqih.

Author

• Cameron Vaziri, Duquesne University