Foucault News

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

Giorgio Astone, Pieghe, invaginazioni, addugliature. Deleuze interprete di Foucault, Laboratorio Archeologia Filosofica, Dicembre 2020 Open access 1. Introduzione – Fra parentesi quadre Con il titolo La soggettivazione viene tradotta in italiano anche l’ultima sezione del corso universitario tenuto da Gilles Deleuze a Paris VIII nell’anno accademico 1985-1986, preceduto dai due volumi Il sapere (Deleuze 2014) e Il potere (Deleuze 2018), contenente …

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Laurie Laufer (2020) Michel Foucault: The Queer Gender for Psychoanalysis?, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 40:8, 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 also implies …

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Patrice Ladwig (2021) Thinking with Foucault Beyond Christianity and the Secular: Notes on Religious Governmentality and Buddhist Monasticism, Political Theology, Published online 1/1/21 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1866809 ABSTRACT In Michel Foucault’s original formulation of the concept, governmentality is intrinsically linked to religious practices and institutions. Although Christian practices associated with the pastorate and monasticism feature prominently as …

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Daniel J. Schultz (2020) Foucault and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity, Political Theology Published online: 30 Dec 2020 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1866814 Limited open access Introduction Political theology announces a relationship between religion and politics, but what structures this relationship and how do the related terms show up as objects of knowledge in the first place? Considerations of …

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Summer School 2021 14 philosophy short-courses taught online January – February 2021. The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy (Australia) is proud to present the Summer School 2021 curriculum. All courses are 10 hours in length. All courses will be taught via Zoom. As always significant discounts apply for those enrolling in multiple courses. If you …

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