Remigiusz Ryziński. Foucault in Warsaw, Open Letter Books (Forthcoming, June 2021) The previously untold story of the plot to kick Michel Foucault out of Poland in the 1950s In 1958, Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to work on his thesis—a work that eventually came to be published as The History of Madness. While he was …
Pele, Antonio, and Stephen Riley. “For a Right to Health Beyond Biopolitics: The Politics of Pandemic and the ‘Politics of Life.’” Law, Culture and the Humanities, (February 2021). DOI: 10.1177/1743872120978201 Open access Abstract We argue, drawing on the work of Didier Fassin, that the right to health can be understood as an essential part of …
Kahan, Benjamin. The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality. University of Chicago Press, 2019. Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities—what Michel Foucault deemed “minor perverts”—has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the proliferation of …
Javaid, Aliraza. Masculinities, sexualities and love. Routledge, 2018. Book Description It can be said that societies today know little of how gender, sexuality and love interconnect in dissimilar contexts, and how they are collectively shaped by social structures. Underpinned by the theoretical writings of Michel Foucault, Masculinities, Sexualities and Love examines a range of empirical …
Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh. The history of sexuality, Volume 4, Edited by Frederic Gros, Translated by Robert Hurley. Pantheon 2021. ABOUT CONFESSIONS OF THE FLESH The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to the public One of the …
Emanuele Iula, Pulsioni e legami. Approcci filosofici alla sessualità, Orthotes Editrice, 2021 Fornire una comprensione adeguata della sessualità umana significa accettare la sfida della complessità, che si esprime non solo facendo ricorso a vari ambiti disciplinari, ma anche accogliendone il differenziarsi delle pratiche. Al giorno d’oggi non esiste autore, né scuola di pensiero, né indirizzo …
II encontro nacional e I internacional de biopolítica O II Encontro Nacional e I Encontro Internacional de Bipolítica: Os desafios da Atualidade acontece no intuito de dar continuidade, e agora visando sua internacionalização, do I Encontro Nacional de Bipolítica: origens e consequências que foi realizado na Universidade Estadual de Londrina no ano de 2018. Evento …
Sylvain Lafleur (ed), Foucault à Montréal réflexions pour une criminologie critique Les éditions de la rue Dorion (2021) En 1976, Michel Foucault participe à une conférence organisée par l’Office des droits des détenus de concert avec l’École de criminologie de l’Université de Montréal. Il y présente ses réflexions sur l’usage des peines de substitution à …
Tomassini, L., Lamond, I., Burrai, E. Global Citizenship & Parrhesia in Small Values-Based Tourism Firms (2021) Leisure Sciences DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2021.1874574 Abstract In this paper we focus on the relationship between justice and tourism and the tension between consumerism and citizenship within the context of small values-based tourism firms. We combine Foucault’s concept of parrhesia, the …
Caraus, T. The horizon of another world: Foucault’s Cynics and the birth of radical cosmopolitics (2021) Philosophy and Social Criticism DOI: 10.1177/0191453720987867 Abstract The ancient Cynic Diogenes was the first to declare ‘I am a citizen of the world (kosmopolitês)’ and the other Cynics followed him. In The Courage of the Truth, Michel Foucault analyses …
