Foucault News

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

M. Francyne Huckaby (2008) Making Use of Foucault in a Study of Specific Parrhesiastic Scholars, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 40:6, 770-788. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00369.x Abstract In this article, I describe how I made use of Foucault theoretically and methodologically in a study of five specific parrhesiastic scholars. Such scholars challenge hegemony in educational policies and practices, …

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Laufer, L. Michel Foucault: The Queer Gender for Psychoanalysis? (2020) Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 40 (8), pp. 579-590. DOI: 10.1080/07351690.2020.1826214 Abstract Why should a practitioner of psychoanalysis read Foucault? Is Foucault still a “hot topic” for psychoanalysts in 2019? To prevent psychoanalysis from becoming a dead language, reading and re-reading Michel Foucault proves highly relevant, as it …

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Foucault face à la norme Sous la direction de : Jacqueline Guittard, Emeric Nicolas, Cyril Sintez Mare & Martin, 2020 En 1975, dans Surveiller et punir, Michel Foucault décrivait « […] une nouvelle forme de “loi” : un mixte de légalité et de nature, de prescription et de constitution, la norme. » Cette affirmation résultait …

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Danielle Guizzo (2021) Reassessing Foucault: Power in the History of Political Economy, International Journal of Political Economy, 50:1, 60-74. DOI: 10.1080/08911916.2021.1894828 Abstract This article examines Michel Foucault’s contributions to the study of power in the history of political economy. It employs Foucault’s readings on economic thought to investigate two moments in the history of political …

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Listik Y. (2021) A Biopolitical Account of Social Pathology: Viewing Pathology as a Political-Ontological Issue. In: Harris N. (eds) Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70582-4_7 Open access Abstract This chapter will argue that the study of social pathologies is not solely a sociological concern. It is crucial …

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Christiaens, T. The entrepreneur of the self beyond Foucault’s neoliberal homo oeconomicus (2020) European Journal of Social Theory, 23 (4), pp. 493-511. DOI: 10.1177/1368431019857998 Abstract In his lectures on neoliberalism, Michel Foucault argues that neoliberalism produces subjects as ‘entrepreneurs of themselves’. He bases this claim on Gary Becker’s conception of the utility-maximizing agent who solely …

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Baptiste Lanaspeze, Marin Schaffner (Éds.) : Les Pensées de l’écologie. Un manuel de poche, Wild Project, 2021 Qu’est-ce que connaître le vivant ? Comment bien vivre sur Terre ? À partir de quels principes refaire des mondes ? Depuis un demi-siècle environ, les humanités écologiques recomposent les relations entre nature et culture, homme et animal, …

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