Marcelo Hoffman The FBI File on Foucault, Viewpoint Magazine, November 8, 2021 Open access Nearly a decade ago, two Brazilian researchers, Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues and Maria Izabel Pitanga, made a remarkable discovery. They requested materials on the French philosopher Michel Foucault from the National Archive of the Ministry of Justice in Brasília and …
Eckstein, N.A. Plague time: Space, fear, and emergency statecraft in early modern Italy (2021) Renaissance and Reformation, 44 (2), pp. 87-111. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v44i2.37522 Abstract Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quarantining entire urban populations and placing citizens under minute surveillance. For Foucault, such sixteenth-and seventeenth-century policies were the …
Maher, H. Foucault against the Foucauldians? On the problem of the neoliberal state (2021) Thesis Eleven DOI: 10.1177/07255136211053377 Abstract The survival of neoliberal forms of governance after their apparent repudiation during the Global Financial Crisis is a problem that continues to generate significant scholarly controversy. One of the most influential accounts of the survival of …
Thornton, E. Unregulated Powers: The Politics of Metaphysics in French Post-Kantianism (2021) European Legacy DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2021.1987849 Abstract For thinkers such as Foucault and Deleuze, it is not possible to engage with metaphysical questions without simultaneously considering other, more political problems concerning the power relations that are internal to thought. In this article I argue that, …
Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments Symposium 17-19th November 2021 Register here for Zoom attendance
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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