Foucault News

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

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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Call For Papers After The Death Of The Human Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference University of Lisbon, Portugal | June 18–19, 2026 Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2025 Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2025 PDF flyer The centenary of Michel Foucault’s birth offers a timely opportunity to reassess the profound contribution of his philosophy …

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