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

Dassonneville, G. Foucault, Sartre et “le malheur de la psychologie”: Une histoire des images, II (2020) Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 82 (1), pp. 141-172. DOI: 10.2143/TVF.82.1.3287463 Abstract In the early 1950s, Foucault continued the project of a critique of the foundations of psychology, begun by Politzer at the turn of the 1930s and extended by Sartre …

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Federico Soldani, The Lancet’s Editor-in-Chief: “We will be transformed into biopolitical citizens” Psypolitics blog 3 August 2021 Topics that readers of PsyPolitics might already be familiar with such as the concepts of power, for instance as discussed by Michel Foucault, the transformation “from citizens to patients” – formulated for the first time in 2019 – …

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Muhsin, I., Ma’Mun, S., Nuroniyah, W. Sexual violence in an Islamic higher education institution of Indonesia: A Maqasid al-shariah and Foucauldian perspective (2021) Samarah, 5 (1), pp. 127-153. DOI: 10.22373/sjhk.v5i1.9144 Abstract Sexual violence was prevalent in many settings, including in religious educational institutions. This article analyzed cases of sexual violence at an Islamic higher education …

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Krce-Ivančić, M. (2021). The Knowledge of Pessimism. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 17(1), 471–490. Open access Abstract Leaving a well-trodden path of conflating pessimism with a favourite pastime of those who take pleasure in coming up with aporetic riddles, the article gives the knowledge of pessimism the attention it deserves. …

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Ball, S., Collet-Sabé, J. Against school: an epistemological critique (2021) Discourse DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2021.1947780 Abstract The paper argues that the modern school is an ‘intolerable’ institution. 1 Contrary to the sensibilities of educational research that look for more and/or better schooling as a way of making education more equal and more inclusive, our position is against …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
One excellent piece of advice I picked up sometime in June was that while it might make sense to think of the autumn term as the beginning of the academic year, for research it makes sense to think of the beginning of summer as a fresh start. So that rather…

Colombo, A. Inexpérience des Pères : Les Aveux de la chair de Michel Foucault et la formation de l’expérience de la chair (2021) Revue Théologique de Louvain, 52 (1), pp. 43-64. DOI: 10.2143/RTL.52.1.3289206 Abstract This article investigates Michel Foucault’s account of « experi ence of the Flesh » based on Foucault’s posthumous Les Aveux de …

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Rozhdestvenskaia, E.A. The ethics of care discourse for future education (2021) Chelovek, 32 (2), pp. 76-88. DOI: 10.31857/S023620070014862-5 Abstract We reveal the key approaches to the ethics of care (Plato, M. Heidegger, M. Foucault), and the features of the feminist ethics of care (N. Noddings, K. Gilligan et al.), which implies the denial of the …

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Claudia Aradau and Martina Tazzioli, Covid-19 and rebordering the world Radical Philosophy 2.10 (Summer 2021) In April 2021, dozens of asylum seekers were moved back to the Napier Barracks in the UK, after the barracks had been emptied a month earlier following protests and media reports on its unsuitable conditions. Migrant support groups and NGOs …

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Rey Chow, A Face Drawn in Sand. Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present, Columbia University Press, 2021 Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there …

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