Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault, Polity, 2021. It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, teaching in Lille and Paris, writing, organizing cultural programmes and lecturing in Uppsala, Warsaw and Hamburg. Although he published little in this …
Jean Zaganiaris, Michel Foucault, le Covid-19 et le «combat immense et multiple des savoirs», iPhilo, 20/05/2021 COMMENTAIRE : La pandémie est l’objet de vives disputes sur ce qui serait médicalement vrai et ce qui relèverait de fakenews. Le philosophe et historien de la littérature Jean Zaganiaris a exhumé pour l’occasion un texte de Michel Foucault …
Vanessa Codaccioni, La société de vigilance. Auto-surveillance, délation et haines sécuritaires, Editions textuel, 2021 Injonctions sécuritaires et obéissance citoyenne Partout dans le monde, les populations sont incitées à se mobiliser pour assurer leur propre sécurité et celle de leur pays. Partout, les appels à la vigilance et à la responsabilité individuelle se multiplient, tandis que …
Weiss, R. Stoicism and its telos: insights from Michel Foucault (2020) Metaphilosophy, 51 (2-3), pp. 335-354. DOI: 10.1111/meta.12419 Abstract This essay concerns the disputed nature of the telos in Stoicism and argues that Michel Foucault’s description of the Stoic telos plausibly constitutes an accurate characterization, despite the frequent criticism it has received and the fact …
‘I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me’. Michel Foucault (1994) [1971] ‘Entretien avec Michel Foucault’. In Dits et Ecrits vol II (of 4 volume version). Paris: Gallimard, pp. 157-74. (This passage trans. Clare O’Farrell).
The best books on Foucault recommended by Gary Gutting, Interview by Charles J. Styles. Fivebooks. Editor: There is no date on this interview Could you start by saying a bit about who Michel Foucault was? Well, at the beginning of my Very Short Introduction, I pose this question and give Foucault’s own answer from his …
BBC Radio 4 Analysis. Podcast on Foucault. ‘What the Foucault?’ Shahidha Bari explores the influence of Michel Foucault in Britain. (2021) Released On: 24 May 2021, Available for over a year Last December Liz Truss made a speech. The Minister for Women and Equalities spoke about her memories of being at school in Leeds. She …
Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberal by Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times. 24 May 2021 Review of The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution By Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora, Verso, 2021 In 1978 and 1979, the French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of …
Editor: This press release along with many other items relating to Foucault’s stay in Tunisia from 1966 to 1968 can be found in the select bibliography I posted yesterday. Press release on the Centre Michel Foucault site in Paris PDF in French Translations into other languages English Italian Portuguese Spanish German
Geoff Shullenberger, How We Forgot Foucault, American Affairs, Vol V no.2, Summer 2021 Late last year, British trade minister Liz Truss caused a stir with a speech that pinned the failures of the British education system on “postmodernist philosophy,” which, she said, “puts societal power structures and labels ahead of individuals and their endeavours.” Due …
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