Foucault News

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

Stuart Elden “How should we do the history of territory?” Additional details 14 September 2011 – “How should we do the history of territory?” Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA 16 September 2011 – ”How should we do the history of territory?” School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Abstract …

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Naja Vucina, Claus Drejer, Peter Triantafillou, ‘Histories and freedom of the present: Foucault and Skinner’, History of the Human Sciences August 18, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111415176 Abstract This article compares the ways in which Michel Foucault’s and Quentin Skinner’s historical analyses seek to unsettle the limits on present forms of freedom. We do so by comparing their …

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Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, Human Nature: Justice vs Power. The Chomsky-Foucault debate, Edited by Fons Elders A new edition of this work released with a new introduction by Fons Elders: In 1971, at a time of enormous political and social change, two of the twentieth century’s most influential public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel …

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Ian LEASK (2011), Beyond Subjection: Notes on the later Foucault and education. Educational Philosophy and Theory. August. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00774.x Abstract This article argues against the doxa that Foucault’s analysis of education inevitably undermines self-originating ethical intention on the part of teachers or students. By attending to Foucault’s lesser known, later work—in particular, the notion of ‘biopower’ …

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Arun Anantheeswaran Iyer, Knowledge and Thought in Heidegger and Foucault: Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA PhD, Summer 2011 Download here Abstract This dissertation shows how Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault, by questioning the very understanding of the subject-object relationship on which all epistemology is grounded, challenge two of its most …

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Munro, I. (2011), The Management of Circulations: Biopolitical Variations after Foucault. International Journal of Management Reviews. August https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2011.00320.x Abstract This paper provides a review of the reception of Foucault’s later work on biopolitics within management and organization studies and contrasts this with the reception of these ideas in sister fields of research in the social …

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