Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

The Volume 37 Issue 3, Spring 2011, issue of Critical Inquiry features an important new translation of an interview with Foucault with Jean Le Bitoux and includes articles by Jean Le Bitoux and David Halperin about the fascinating publishing history of this interview.

Jean Le Bitoux and Michel Foucault, “The Gay Science,” First complete translation by Nicolae Morar, Daniel W. Smith (dossier prefaced by David Halperin), Critical Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring 2011), pp. 385-403.

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David M. Halperin, “Michel Foucault, Jean Le Bitoux, and the Gay Science Lost and Found: An Introduction”, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring 2011), pp. 371-380

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Jean Le Bitoux, “At the origin of thought, silence and laughter,” trans. Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring 2011), pp. 381-384.

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