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

Call for papers Michel Foucault and the Historiography of the Sciences The June 2022 edition of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science will present a special issue dedicated to the work of Michel Foucault. The aim is to bring together analyses and reflections on the history of the relationship between Michel Foucault’s work …

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Voogt, A. Spirituality in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: An analysis in the wake of Foucault (2021) Metaphilosophy DOI: 10.1111/meta.12523 Abstract Ancient philosophy is often distinguished from modern philosophy regarding its affinity to spirituality. In antiquity, philosophy meant a way of life rather than a body of knowledge. Yet according to Michel Foucault, Hegel’s Phenomenology of …

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Horton, S. When the face becomes a carrier: Biopower, Levinas’s ethics, and contagion (2021) Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 77 (2-3), pp. 715-732. DOI: 10.17990/RPF/2021_77_2_0715 Abstract In the midst of a pandemic, what does it mean to see the Other as Other and not as a carrier of the virus? I argue that in seeking a …

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2nd Month of Historical Epistemology November 3, 10, 17, 24 / 2021 17h-19h (Paris time GMT+1) Link Zoom: unive.zoom.us/j/6569494316 Organizing Committee Caroline Angleraux Lucie Fabry Ivan Moya Diez Matteo Vagelli Épistémologie Historique. Research Network on the History and the Methods of Historical Epistemology with the support of IHPST (UMR 8590, Paris 1/CNRS) République des Savoirs (USR …

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Platonism. Ficino to Foucault Editors: Valery Rees, Anna Corrias, Francesca M. Crasta, Laura Follesa, and Guido Giglioni, Brill, 2021. In particular Candiotto, Laura. “Chapter 14 Care of the Self and Politics: Michel Foucault, Heir of a Forgotten Plato?”. In Platonism, (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020) doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437425_016 The sixteen essays in this volume trace the …

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Beukes, Johann. “Michel Foucault on Methodius of Olympus (d.ca.311) in Les aveux de la chair: Patrick Vandermeersch’s analysis contextualised.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies , 77.4 (2021): 12 pages. Web. 30 Oct. 2021 Open access Abstract This article presents a contextualisation of Belgian philosopher and historian of psychiatry and sexuality, Patrick Vandermeersch’s (1946–), unpublished …

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McCall, Corey. “Oedipal Fragments: Reconsidering the Significance of Oedipus for James Bernauer and Michel Foucault.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 47, no. 8 (October 2021): 947–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537211042610. Abstract This essay reconstructs James Bernauer’s reading of Foucault’s critique of psychoanalysis in his essay “Oedipus, Freud, Foucault” in order to assess the role that Foucault’s critique of psychoanalysis …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Michel Foucault, Phénoménologie et Psychologie 1953-1954, edited by Philippe Sabot, Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, November 2021 The next volume of the courses and manuscripts before the Collège de France is a really interesting one. I discuss this in The Early Foucault, but it will be interesting to see how the manuscript has been…