‘I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me’. Michel Foucault (1994) [1971] ‘Entretien avec Michel Foucault’. In Dits et Ecrits vol II (of 4 volume version). Paris: Gallimard, pp. 157-74. (This passage trans. Clare O’Farrell).
The best books on Foucault recommended by Gary Gutting, Interview by Charles J. Styles. Fivebooks. Editor: There is no date on this interview Could you start by saying a bit about who Michel Foucault was? Well, at the beginning of my Very Short Introduction, I pose this question and give Foucault’s own answer from his …
BBC Radio 4 Analysis. Podcast on Foucault. ‘What the Foucault?’ Shahidha Bari explores the influence of Michel Foucault in Britain. (2021) Released On: 24 May 2021, Available for over a year Last December Liz Truss made a speech. The Minister for Women and Equalities spoke about her memories of being at school in Leeds. She …
Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberal by Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times. 24 May 2021 Review of The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution By Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora, Verso, 2021 In 1978 and 1979, the French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of …
Editor: This press release along with many other items relating to Foucault’s stay in Tunisia from 1966 to 1968 can be found in the select bibliography I posted yesterday. Press release on the Centre Michel Foucault site in Paris PDF in French Translations into other languages English Italian Portuguese Spanish German
Geoff Shullenberger, How We Forgot Foucault, American Affairs, Vol V no.2, Summer 2021 Late last year, British trade minister Liz Truss caused a stir with a speech that pinned the failures of the British education system on “postmodernist philosophy,” which, she said, “puts societal power structures and labels ahead of individuals and their endeavours.” Due …
Michel Foucault in Tunisia: A select bibliography Editor: In light of a number of stories that have been circulating in the media and more broadly online in recent weeks, I have put together a select bibliography relating to Foucault’s time in Tunisia from 1966 to 1968, with a view to making accurate information widely available. …
M. Francyne Huckaby (2008) Making Use of Foucault in a Study of Specific Parrhesiastic Scholars, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 40:6, 770-788. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00369.x Abstract In this article, I describe how I made use of Foucault theoretically and methodologically in a study of five specific parrhesiastic scholars. Such scholars challenge hegemony in educational policies and practices, …
Laufer, L. Michel Foucault: The Queer Gender for Psychoanalysis? (2020) Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 40 (8), pp. 579-590. DOI: 10.1080/07351690.2020.1826214 Abstract Why should a practitioner of psychoanalysis read Foucault? Is Foucault still a “hot topic” for psychoanalysts in 2019? To prevent psychoanalysis from becoming a dead language, reading and re-reading Michel Foucault proves highly relevant, as it …
Foucault face à la norme Sous la direction de : Jacqueline Guittard, Emeric Nicolas, Cyril Sintez Mare & Martin, 2020 En 1975, dans Surveiller et punir, Michel Foucault décrivait « […] une nouvelle forme de “loi” : un mixte de légalité et de nature, de prescription et de constitution, la norme. » Cette affirmation résultait …
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