Foucault News

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

New Issue of Pléyade: Biopolitics, number 17, launched in June 2016 Full PDF of issue available Pléyade is an international peer reviewed journal dedicated to the Humanities and Social Sciences funded the year 2008 by the Centre for Political Analysis and Research in Santiago, Chile. The journal is an independent publication since 2016. This publication …

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Sous la direction de Philippe Artières, Emmanuel Da Silva, Michel, Foucault et la médecine – Lectures et usages, Editions Kimé, 2001, édition numérique (2016) Présentation Michel Foucault n’a cessé tout au long de son œuvre d’interroger la médecine et sa pratique; ce questionnement constant que le philosophe a exercé non seulement sur l’histoire de la …

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María Alejandra Energici Sprovera, El self emprendedor. Sociología de una forma de subjetivación Ulrich Bröckling (2015). Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Revista Persona y Sociedad, Vol. XXIX / Nº 3 septiembre-diciembre 2015 / 131-136 Full PDF available La pregunta por el sujeto ha tomado especial relevancia en los últimos años, principalmente porque permite pensar la …

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Ulrich Bröckling, El self emprendedor. Sociología de una forma de subjetivación Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2015. Descripción El hecho de que las empresas tengan un alma es “una de las noticias más terribles del mundo”, clamaba el filósofo francés Gilles Deleuze a principios de los años noventa. Esto solo es superado por la exigencia …

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Dominique Beynier MICHEL FOUCAULT, « Le monde correctionnaire » , in Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (1961), Gallimard, 1974, 92-123 In Didier Drieu (ed) 46 commentaires de textes en clinique institutionnelle – Dunod, 2013 Premières lignes Michel Foucault (1926-1984), entre en 1946 à l’École normale supérieure. Il obtient en Sorbonne une licence de …

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Macias, T. (2012). In the World: Toward a Foucauldian Ethics of Reading in Social Work. Intersectionalities: A Global Journal Of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, And Practice, 1, 1-19. Full text available ABSTRACT Teaching and learning critical and anti-oppressive frameworks pose many challenges within social work as a profession invested in notions of practice, competency, …

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Paul Bruce Mcilvenny, Julia Zhukova Klausen, Laura Bang Lindegaard, (Eds.) (2016). Studies of Discourse and Governmentality: New Perspectives and Methods. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. This volume brings together analyses of governmentality from different angles in order to explore the multiple forms, practices, modes, programmes and rationalities of the ‘conduct of conduct’ today. Following the publication of …

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Francescomaria Tedesco, Eccedenza Sovrana , Mimesis Edizioni, 2012 Pasolini, discutendo di Salò, sosteneva che nulla è più anarchico del potere, perché il potere fa ciò che vuole, e ciò che vuole il potere è completamente arbitrario. Eppure, a scrutare il fondo uccisore della sovranità moderna, emerge la fragilità di un potere che ha bisogno, per esistere, …

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Purdue philosophy professor receives NEH award August 24, 2016 Editor: These seminars will include Deleuze’s work on Foucault WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University professor of philosophy has a received $175,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate the seminar lectures of a noted French philosopher and make them available online. …

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