Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos, La psychologie des philosophes. De Bergson à Vernant Septembre 2012 – PUF – Collection “Philosophie française contemporaine” L’ouvrage Décrire la psychologie des philosophes, ce n’est pas fouiller dans leur vie pour exhiber leurs petits secrets. C’est plutôt constater qu’entre les deux extrêmes d’une métaphysique de la durée et d’une anthropologie de …
See website Les 26 et 27 mars 2013, au TAP – Scène Nationale, Poitiers, Foucault 71, A Poitiers les 26 et 27 mars 2013 Foucault 71 FEUILLETON THÉÂTRAL EN TROIS ÉPISODES à voir séparément ou dans la foulée Par le collectif F71 Direction artistique Sabrina Baldassarra, Stéphanie Farison, Emmanuelle Lafon, Sara Louis, Lucie Nicolas Direction …
Nicholas De Villiers, Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol, University of Minnesota Press Looking beyond the closet at the lives and works of renowned queer public figures Opacity and the Closet interrogates the viability of the metaphor of “the closet” when applied to three important queer figures in postwar American …
Iride. Filosofia e discussione pubblica, n. 66 maggio-agosto 2012 One of the most important philosophical journals in Italy, Iride has published its 66th issue which is largely devoted to Michel Foucault. Pdf of table of contents Abstracts in English are below Nota introduttiva. Sesso come cultura di Arnold I. Davidson Michel Foucault, L’arte di divenire gay …
Special Issue “The Legacy of Richard Rorty” A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2013 Special Issue Editor Guest Editor Dr. Neil Gascoigne Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Interests: pragmatism, metaphilosophy, scepticism, tacit knowledge, expertise Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, During his …
Call for Papers Pli, The Warwick Journal of Philosophy: Jean Hyppolite Man is consciousness and universal self-consciousness (this proposition must not be inverted by expressing universal self-consciousness in terms of man). The manifestation of this universal self-consciousness is no longer the State, but authentic language, which is the dwelling place [demeure] of Being. It is …
La pensée française s’exporte-t-elle bien ? August 2012 Audio podcast from LES NOUVEAUX CHEMINS DE LA CONNAISSANCE by podcast@radiofrance.com durée : 00:58:46 – LES NOUVEAUX CHEMINS DE LA CONNAISSANCE – par : Philippe Petit – Dans le cadre de la semaine du Livre EN DIRECT – invités : Monique Labrune, Gilles BOËTSCH, François GEZE, François …
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The audio recording of Peter Gratton’s talk ‘Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity’ at UWS is now available (from here, via’s Peter’s blog). Abstract: Much has been written about bio-political sovereignty in the wake of Giorgio Agamben’s work, which relies, at least in the first volume of Homo Sacer, on…
Franck Salaün, Besoin de fiction. Sur l’expérience littéraire de la pensée et le concept de fiction pensante, Paris, Hermann, coll. “Fictions pensantes”, 2010 Présentation de l’éditeur : Les fictions pensent-elles ? On ne se lasse pas de le dire : l’homme est un animal fabulateur, un producteur de fictions. Notre besoin de fiction est même impossible à rassasier. …
Dr. Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist Who Led Movement Against His Field, Dies at 92 By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 11, 2012, New York Times Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist whose 1961 book “The Myth of Mental Illness” questioned the legitimacy of his field and provided the intellectual grounding for generations of critics, patient advocates and antipsychiatry activists, …
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