With the recent discussion of citation networks, I thought I'd re-post this piece from 2011.
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Something about all the recent talk about pluralism (I'd personally prefer something like "aiming to go beyond the a/c divide" though it's more clunky) made me wonder just how often do big continental names appear in top mainstream journals.
So I searched for "Foucault" in Journal of Philosophy. Unfortunately my library has an electronic subscription enabling me to search their database only up through 2005, so if someone can supplement this search with more recent data, I'd be grateful.
I'll present my results in a bit, but what I'd like to do is ask other people to do similar searches, say for Deleuze in J Phil, or Heidegger in Phil Studies, etc. If you post them here, we'll have a sort of Wiki going.
Findings: no articles had "Foucault" in the title or as the main topic, although Ian Hacking does a laudatory review of Dreyfus and Rabinow's book: J Phil 82.5 (May 1985): 273-277.
There's one mention of Foucault as representative of the "free spirits" as opposed to "serious philosophy" in Ernest Sosa's article: J Phil 84.12 (Dec 1987): 707-726.
There's a footnote to Foucault's works on sexuality in Melinda Vadas's article on pornography: J Phil 84.9 (Sept 1987): 487-511.
Now, there are 2 or 3 APA papers on Foucault reprinted in J Phil each year from 1985-1991, for a total of 15 such papers, but these aren't peer-reviewed articles, they are reprints of conference papers under contract with the APA.
What does all this mean? I'm not sure; let's first gather some more data and see what we make of the patterns that emerge.
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