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

Dinah Ribard, 1969 : Michel Foucault et la question de l’auteur. Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur ? Texte, présentation, et commentaire Éditions Honoré Champion, Textes critiques français no 2. 2019. 1 vol., 112 p., broché, 13 × 20 cm. ISBN 978-2-7453-4832-6. 20 € Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur ? est le texte d’une conférence donnée en 1969 à Paris, puis …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
David Macey’s biography, The Lives of Michel Foucault has now been republished by Verso, with a new afterword by me. It’s currently available with a 30% discount on the Verso site, with bundled e-book. When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
First edition (in a protective wrap), second edition, current edition and translation I’ve been continuing work on The Early Foucault manuscript, which is coming together quite well. After the Christmas and New Year break, I submitted a book review and chapter on quite different topics. I’m now in Paris, where…

Gary Gutting (1942-2019), 3am magazine, First posted: Sunday, January 20th, 2019. Gary Gutting, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died. Professor Gutting worked on philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, contemporary French philosophy, and contemporary analytic philosophy. He was well-known for his substantial work in public philosophy, authoring several columns …

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Haskaj, F. From biopower to necroeconomies: Neoliberalism, biopower and death economies (2018) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 44 (10), pp. 1148-1168. DOI: 10.1177/0191453718772596 Open access Abstract The deaths of millions from war, genocide, poverty and famine are symptomatic of a crisis that extends beyond site-specific failures of governance, culture or economies. Rather than reiterate standard critiques …

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