Doctoral Candidate Raffaele Maria Campanile receives scholarship “4e Bourse internationale de recherche doctorale Imec/Centre Michel Foucault” for dissertation project
2025-02-18
Raffaele Maria Campanile, PhD candidate at Leuphana University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Roberto Nigro (Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Art History at Leuphana University Lüneburg) and of Prof. Vittorio Morfino (Professor of History of Philosophy at Milano-Bicocca University) received the award “4e Bourse internationale de recherche doctorale Imec/Centre Michel Foucault” for his dissertation project.
Campanile's dissertation on “The bourgeois power in the industrial society: biopolitics, hegemony and hygiene. A Gramscian and Foucauldian analysis” proposes a joint analysis of the works of Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault in order to show how fragmented and individual forms of power contribute to the construction of class hegemony. This approach allows for a rethinking of Gramsci's concept of the integral state by placing it in dialogue with Foucault's concepts. Based on this theoretical convergence, the specific forms of bourgeois power in industrial societies should be better understood. This combined reading also reveals a new perspective on power dynamics in modern societies.
The scholarship from the L’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC) and Centre Michel Foucault includes an invitation to a research stay where Campanile will work on Foucault’s, Louis Althusser’s and Antonio Negri’s archives.