Foucault News

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

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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Stephen Reicher, God save the Queue: how the wait to see the Queen’s coffin transformed people, The Conversation, Tue 20 Sep 2022 strange thing has happened since last week, when I wrote about how myself and other social psychologists were studying the crowds of people queueing to watch the ceremonials following the death of Queen …

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Jackson, B. Putting Neoliberalism in Its Place (2022) Modern Intellectual History, 19 (3), pp. 982-995. DOI: 10.1017/S1479244321000032 Abstract Neoliberalism is an ideal subject for intellectual historians. It is an ideological movement that has been both theoretically sophisticated and influential, ensuring that excursions along the highways and byways of neoliberal thought can always be justified practically, …

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Maynard, Steven. “Queer Parrhesiast.” PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas, 65 (2022): 120-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/public_00097_1 Abstract Drawing on and contextualizing the papers of Alexander Wilson (1953-1993), a Toronto-based writer, activist, and horticulturalist, this article explores the reciprocal relationship between Wilson’s intellectual and political work. It focuses on Wilson’s involvement with The Body Politic during the late 1970s and early …

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Genealogy. Advisory Editor: Daniele Lorenzini The Monist, Volume 105, Issue 4, October 2022 CONTENTS Articles Genealogy, Evaluation, and Engineering Matthieu Queloz Genealogy as Meditation and Adaptation with the Han Feizi Lee Wilson Dripping with Blood and Dirt from Head to Toe: Marx’s Genealogy of Capitalism in Capital, Volume 1 Amy Allen Psychology, Physiology, Medicine: The …

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