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

PDF Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR8103) Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne (PhiCo) Séminaire Foucault 2016-2017 AUTOUR DE L’ARCHÉOLOGIE DU SAVOIR Animé par Jean-François Braunstein et Daniele Lorenzini Les séances ont lieu de 10h30 à 12h30 à l’Université Paris 1, UFR de Philosophie, 17 rue …

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Formas de vida e práticas dos valores: políticas da subjectividade no último Foucault October 26, 2016 – February 15, 2017 Ciclo de seminários do EPLab Todas as sessões se realizarão das 18h00 às 20h00, em sala a anunciar. IFILNOVA – Instituto de Filosofia da Nova Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The seventeenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Los Angeles, California March 23-25, 2017 (hosted by Loyola Marymount University) We invite individual papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work. Studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking are all welcome. We will aim for a diversity of topics and perspectives. Abstracts should be …

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Jean-François Favreau, Artaud mis en scène par Foucault : une « fiction critique », Les Temps Modernes 2016/1 (n° 687-688) Premières lignes Ce que nous nous proposons d’aborder ici, ce sont les usages d’Artaud par Foucault, ce qui nous permet d’un côté de considérer un Foucault critique, metteur en scène de la pensée et de …

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CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference GOVERNMENT OF SELF, GOVERNMENT OF OTHERS Ethical and political questions in the late Foucault IFILNOVA / EPLab, Lisbon, 6th-7th March 2017 Organizers Marta Faustino, Gianfranco Ferraro, Luís de Sousa The Laboratory of Ethics and Political Philosophy of IFILNOVA invites submissions for its international conference “Government of Self, Government of Others. …

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Michael Ashworth, Affective Governmentality. Governing Through Disgust in Uganda, Social & Legal Studies, September 23, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0964663916666630 Abstract This article questions the extent to which calculable numbers are indispensable to the government of conduct. By focusing on the role played by disgust in the government of sexual minorities in Uganda, it provides an account …

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Archeologia Filosofica Laboratorio Sull’archeologia filosofica Le ragioni di un laboratorio L’archeologia filosofica è quel sapere delle formazioni discorsive indagate a partire dagli enunciati in cui si determinano i rapporti tra storia e filosofia. L’archeologia retrocede alle condizioni di possibilità del pensiero, a partire dalle relazioni tra saperi, poteri e soggetti. Il metodo archeologico genera genealogie …

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Editor: I am delighted to announce that my long out of print 1989 book (originally published with Macmillan) has been republished as an ebook.   Clare O’Farrell, Foucault: Historian or Philosopher? ebook, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. PDF flyer Description The controversial French thinker, Michel Foucault, was famous not only for the variety of his interests but …

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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Du droit à l’émancipation. Sur l’État, Foucault et l’anarchisme Séminaire ETAPE n°19 1 DÉCEMBRE 2015 A voir aussi PDF Séance à partir d’un texte de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, sociologue et philosophe, auteur notamment de : La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault. Sur le néolibéralisme, la théorie et la politique (Fayard, 2012), L’Art …

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