Foucault News

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

Dictionnaire Roland Barthes. Sous la direction de Claude Coste, Honoré Champion, 2025. Animée par un déplacement incessant qui la conduit de l’engagement des Mythologies au structuralisme (« Analyse structurale des récits », « Éléments de sémiologie ») au post-structuralisme (S/Z), puis à l’essayisme de L’Empire des signes, des Fragments d’un discours amoureux et de La …

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Howell, P. (2025). Foucault, Parrhesia and the politics of presence: on not speaking truth to power. Cultural Geographies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241310238 Abstract This paper considers the take-up by geographers and others of Foucault’s late work on parrhesia, the ancient Greek concept of frank or fearless speech. While there has been productive work on its genealogy and …

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Call for Papers La volontà di sapere | The Will to Knowledge Vesper No. 14, Università Iuav di Venezia Call for abstracts by September 5, 2025 See PDF of call for complete details […] Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral …

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Vaccarino Bremner, S. (2025), The Relativized A Priori, the Historical A Priori, and the Symbolic Form. Philosophy Compass, 20: e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.70044 ABSTRACT Recent work in philosophy of science has suggested that scientific paradigms in the wake of revolutions can be conceived as relativized a priori frameworks. In this paper, I put these accounts in dialog …

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Gavin Rae (2025). From reason to madness and back: Critiquing reason through the Derrida–Foucault debate. History of the Human Sciences https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251337677 Abstract There has recently been something of a resurgence of interest in the Derrida–Foucault debate, with this leading to a reassessment of its aims, content, and outcome. This article contributes to that endeavor by …

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Koncz, L., Boas, A. V., & Candiotto, C. (2025). Spiritual Integration of Migrants: A Lisbon Case Study Within the Common Home Agenda and Polyhedron of Intelligibility Framework. Religions, 16(6), 711. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16060711 Abstract Migration is a multidimensional process that reshapes identities and communities. This article adopts a polyhedral framework inspired by Pope Francis’s Laudato si’ and …

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Bourke, T., Alford, J., Mavropoulou, S., & Catalano, G. (2025). Interpretations of inclusive education in Australian policy: what’s the problem represented to be? International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2025.2532634 ABSTRACT Policies encapsulate distilled values and have good intentions. However, how problems are represented and then interpreted and translated into practice is not always clear. …

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Tarusarira, J., & Wabule, A. (2025). The continuity of military identity in civilian work-places: former Ugandan soldiers in Uganda. Critical Military Studies, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2025.2488538 ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how Ugandan ex-soldiers deploy different military practices in civilian workplaces in Uganda and how these practices continue to define them as former military personnel. The …

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Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault. Tome 2: Une nouvelle représentation de la guerre : le monde comme « champ de bataille », L’Harmattan, 2025. Au sujet de la représentation des conflits comme « guerre des races », Foucault demande s’il est possible de filtrer la « violence barbare ». De la même …

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Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault. Tome 1: De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, L’Harmattan, 2025 Au fond de la politique, qu’y a-t-il sinon la guerre ? Et cette guerre, comment la définir ? Telles sont les questions posées par Michel Foucault dans son cours au Collège de France, “Il faut …

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