Foucault News

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

The Confessions of the Flesh The Institute of Theology and Religious Studies (ITER) of Alberto Hurtado University, Chile, organized the International Colloquium “The Confessions of the Flesh”, on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 September 2022. Link to program The Colloquium aimed at a critical reception of “The Confessions of the Flesh”, the fourth volume of …

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Lemke, T. (2022). Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality. Theory, Culture & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221113737 Abstract The article focuses on the ability of some animals and plants to respond to changing environmental conditions by temporarily suspending metabolic processes. In contemporary biology, this state between life and death is commonly labelled ‘cryptobiosis’, combining the Greek kryptos …

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Foucault and Derrida in Couples Therapy with Freud Parrhesia Berlin Tuesdays 6-8 pm. Weekly from 18 October – 15 November (5 evenings) Course by Dr. Leon Brenner Where: Gerichtstrasse 45, 13347 Berlin-Wedding (courtyard). U-Bahn: U6 & U9 Leopoldplatz; S-Bahn: Wedding Description Michel Foucault’s innovative approach to madness in History of Madness greatly impacted the antipsychiatry …

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Editor: Perlego, an ebook library launched in 2016, offers a paid subscription service to access a variety of academic and professional ebooks. They have a very substantial collection of currently 431 books relating to Foucault, mainly in English, but also in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. The collection also includes a selection of works …

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What is Foucault’s Theory of Power & Knowledge?, Perlego, online subscription library of e-books, Date Published: 08.03.2023, Last Updated: 19.07.2024 Michel Foucault (1926-89) was a French philosopher and sociologist notable for his works Madness and Civilization (1961), Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976). A persistent theme in Foucault’s work is the …

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Paul Veyne, grand historien français de l’Antiquité, est mort, Le Devoir Claude Casteran – Agence France-Presse à Paris 29 septembre 2022 L’historien de l’Antiquité Paul Veyne, salué pour son érudition et son enthousiasme pour transmettre sa passion des mondes grec et romain dans une oeuvre aussi savante qu’iconoclaste, est mort à l’âge de 92 ans, …

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Coloquio Internacional «Las Confesiones de la carne» El Instituto de Teología y Estudios Religiosos (ITER) de la Universidad Alberto Hurtado invita a participar del Coloquio Internacional “Las Confesiones de la Carne”, que tendrá lugar los días lunes 26 y martes 27 de Septiembre en la UAH. Program El Coloquio se propone realizar una recepción crítica …

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Francesca Peruzzo and Aaron Kuntz are calling for abstracts for a special issue of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education titled: Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Higher Education: New approaches, theories, and conditions of possibility. The idea behind this special issue is to expand Foucault’s analytical toolbox, intersecting new epistemological and analytical approaches to explore …

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