Foucault News

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

Philosophy Seminars 2013 The Writing and Society Research Centre and Philosophy@UWS present: Vanessa Lemm, A Biopolitical Reading of the Philosophical Life in Michel Foucault’s Le courage de la vérité University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54 20 March 2013 3.30-5pm Abstract: This paper investigates the relation between truth and the philosophical life …

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Un clandestin philosophique : le freudo-marxisme français. Luca Paltrinieri (CIRPP/CIRPHLES) Séminaire “Archives de la philosophie française”. 8 mars 2013, 17h-19h, salle séminaires du Pavillon Pasteur, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005, Paris. Mouvement populaire et militant, le freudo-marxisme français ne semble pas relever de la tradition philosophique. Pourtant, il est difficile de comprendre le succès de Marcuse …

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Foucault and the critique of our present: reworking the Foucauldian tool-box. A workshop organized with the support of the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths and of mf / materiali foucaultiani Sophie Fuggle (Goldsmiths)- “An Overprisoned Population?” Time: 6 March 2013, 17:00 – 19:00 Location: 250, Richard Hoggart Building Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London …

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Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault’s ‘History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge’, An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, Edinburgh University Press, 2013 Book Description This is a step-by-step guide to Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge. In the first volume of his History of Sexuality, The Will to Knowledge, Foucault weaves …

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One-Day Conference Critica e saperi assoggettati: Uno sguardo foucaultiano sui movimenti attuali Interventions by Giso Amendola, Sandro Chignola, Ottavio Marzocca, Sandro Mezzadra, Judith Revel, Gigi Roggero, Anna Simone, Martina Tazzioli, Adelino Zanini Friday, March 8, 2013, 9.30 am Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Strada Maggiore 45, aula Jemolo pdf flyer program Programma Mattina ore 09.30 …

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Les intermittences du sujet. Écritures de soi et discontinu (1913-2013) Evénement Du 21 mars 2013 au 6 avril 2013, Créteil, Paris, Mulhouse Colloque international organisé par l’EA 4395 LIS – Université Paris-Est Créteil EA 4400 Etudes de la modernité – Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle EA 4363 ILLE – Université de Haute-Alsace Dates 21 …

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The Foucault Society Reading Group: Spring meetings begin Friday, March 8. We invite you to join us as the Foucault Society’s reading group continues our discussion of Michel Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976.  The group is multidisciplinary and open to academics and independent scholars across the NYC area. Our purpose …

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Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 15 A Special Issue on Foucault and Religion guest edited by John McSweeney Issue 15 also includes: An interview with James Bernauer, three original articles on the topics of parrhêsia, the US/Mexico border and the usefulness of Kant’s writings for Foucault’s genealogical efforts to free …

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