Foucault News

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

L’œuvre de jeunesse de Michel Foucault : psychopathologie, phénoménologie et anthropologie Appel à participation à un atelier doctoral sur l’œuvre de Michel Foucault Université de Lübeck, 12-14.07.2018 PDF of call for Papers. French and German Cet atelier doctoral sera focalisé sur des textes et manuscrits de jeunesse de Foucault, dans le cadre de ses premiers …

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This graphic novel is the biography of a painting. But perhaps it’s really about reality Review by Debkumar Mitra, Scroll.in, Published Oct 15, 2017 Santiago Garcia and Javier Olivares’s ‘The Ladies-In-Waiting’ tries to lift the veil of mystery over Velázquez’s famous work ‘Las Meninas’. A fictional account of a mysterious and famous painting and a …

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Helen Lock, The transformative effect of university-level learning inside prisons | Times Higher Education Features Prisoners rarely get tertiary lessons, let alone have undergraduates study alongside them, but the results can be profound. Helen Lock reports. March 15, 2018 PDF if you can’t access online Extracts […] HMP Isis is located in south-east London, not …

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E. Iula, “L’eredità foucaultiana di Judith Butler”, in Rassegna di teologia, 2017 (4), pp. 639-660. Article on academia.edu Abstract: Foucauldian influence on Butler’s work is evident at least in three points: in the constitution of the subject by a true speech about sexuality, in the genealogical method and in inheriting the Foucauldian project itself. The …

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Foucault and Nietzsche: A Critical Encounter (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy) Edited by Joseph Westfall and Alan Rosenberg, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 Foucault’s intellectual indebtedness to Nietzsche is apparent in his writing, yet the precise nature, extent, and nuances of that debt are seldom explored. Foucault himself seems sometimes to claim that his approach is essentially …

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Essay on the death of Hayden White Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, March 9, 2018. The author of Metahistory, one of the most influential books in the humanities over the past four decades, died Monday. Scott McLemee takes him out of the poststructuralist pigeonhole. Pursuing such a line of thought meant turning to sources outside …

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Shelley L. Tremain, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, University of Michigan Press, 2017 Addresses misrepresentations of Foucault’s work within feminist philosophy and disability studies, offering a new feminist philosophy of disability Description Accessibility features: The EPUB version includes textual description of images to make visual content accessible to readers with disabilities that affect reading. Foucault …

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Ugo Balzaretti, Leben und Macht Eine radikale Kritik am Naturalismus nach Michel Foucault und Georges Canguilhem, Klebebindung (2018) BESCHREIBUNG Das Biologische ist, Lévinas zufolge, zum »Herzen des geistigen Lebens« geworden. Davon zeugt sowohl die zunehmende Bedeutung der Biowissenschaften als auch die Verbreitung biologistischer Menschenbilder. Doch liegt der moderne Biologismus mehr noch in einem subtilen Naturalismus, …

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