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

Urošević, Milan. 2024. “Therapy culture and the production of subjectivity in neoliberalism.” Philosophy and Society https://doi.org/10.2298/FID240220005U ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between neoliberalism and the phenomena of “therapy culture”. We define therapy culture as a consequence of the spread of ideas, discourses, and practices from psychology and psychotherapy into various realms of society. Previous …

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Bufkin, S. The hunger strike as a biopolitical technology: re-reading the 1981 Irish republican prison protest (2024) Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2024.2405584 Abstract This article uses the case of the 1981 Irish republican prison protest to show that indefinite hunger strikes can force Euromodern states to the negotiating table by undercutting their commitment to good government. …

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Daniel Whistler and Mark Sinclair, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2024 -A rich and authoritative guide to French philosophy since 1800 -No other book gives such broad coverage of modern French philosophy -Discusses the ideas in their historical context -Written by an international team of specialists in French philosophy …

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