Now available for pre-order on the University of Chicago Press website. Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2024, ISBN-13: 9780226383446, Publication date: 01/15/2024, 208pp, Hardcover (First Edition): $35.00 Newly published lectures …
Un inédit de Michel Foucault publié en mai AFP, 10 mars 2023 Un inédit de Michel Foucault, “Le Discours philosophique”, réflexion sur les rapports entre philosophie et actualité, sera publié le 12 mai, ont annoncé jeudi les éditions du Seuil. Cet essai permettra de lire un manuscrit quasi achevé que le philosophe entama en 1966 …
André Duarte, Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy. Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Necropolitics in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Routledge, 2023 Book Description In this incisive book, André Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy. Reflecting on President Jair Bolsonaro’s misgovernment of Brazil, as evidenced by his political actions, speeches and …
Special Issue: Foucault Before the Collège de France, Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 40 Issue 1-2, January-March 2023 Foucault Before the Collège de France Stuart Elden Orazio Irrera Daniele Lorenzini Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel? Pierre Macherey Foucault and the History of Anthropology: Man, before the ‘Death of Man’ Arianna Sforzini Michel …
Michel Foucault, Madness, Language, Literature Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Judith Revel Translated by Robert Bononno The University of Chicago Press, 2023 Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less …
Refsum, C. Event: Or, How Foucault Used Baudelaire to Enlighten Kant In Bruce Barnhart, Marit Grøtta (eds) Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature, (2022) pp. 15-30. DOI: 10.4324/9781003328599-3 Abstract This chapter explores the notion of the event through a discussion of Michel Foucault’s critical view of the enlightenment as an …
Colapietro, V. Quotidian Tasks: Habits, Routines, and Rituals (2022) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 36 (4), pp. 491-516. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.36.4.0491 Abstract The author frames his exploration in terms of Michel Foucault’s distinction between the practice of emancipation in the strict sense and practices of freedom. He proposes to treat rituals of attention as examples of practices …
Simons, M. “Changing” one’s mind: Historical epistemology as normative psychology (2023) Metaphilosophy DOI: 10.1111/meta.12616 Abstract This article argues that historical epistemology offers the history of philosophy and science more than a mere tool to write the history of concepts. It does this, first of all, by rereading historical epistemology through Michel Foucault’s “techniques of the …
Weiskopf, R. Dis/organising visibilities: Governmentalisation and counter-transparency (2023) Organization, 30 (2), pp. 326-344. DOI: 10.1177/1350508421995751 Abstract This paper situates organisational transparency in an agonistic space that is shaped by the interplay of ‘mechanisms of power that adhere to a truth’ and critical practices that come from below in a movement of ‘not being governed like …
Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life – An Ancient Model, a Contemporary Approach See Seminar Program “Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, a Contemporary Approach” is an Exploratory Project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Context Over the past few decades, the idea of philosophy as …
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