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Kathryn Medien, ‘Foucault in Tunisia: The encounter with intolerable power‘, The Sociological Review, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119870107 (requires subscription) In September 1966, 10 years after Tunisia officially gained independence from French colonial rule, Michel Foucault took up a three-year secondment, teaching philosophy at the University of Tunis. This article offers an account…
Sabina F. Vaccarino Bremner, (2019) Anthropology as critique: Foucault, Kant and the metacritical tradition, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2019.1650250 ABSTRACT While increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the relation between Foucault’s conception of critique and Kant’s, much controversy remains over whether Foucault’s most sustained early engagement with Kant, his …
Michel Foucault et la force des mots,, Phantasia, Volume 8 – 2019 Dirigé par Daniele Lorenzini Daniele Lorenzini Foucault et la force des mots : de l’extralinguistique à la subjectivation Philippe Sabot Le langage au pouvoir. Foucault, lecteur de Brisset Emmanuel Salanskis Une fidélité de Foucault à Nietzsche : le langage comme fil conducteur généalogique …
Special feature: The government of life. Economy and Society (2015), Volume 44, issue 1, 2015 The government of life: managing populations, health and scarcity Kaspar Villadsen & Ayo Wahlberg The Malthus Effect: population and the liberal government of life Mitchell Dean Real-time biopolitics: the actuary and the sentinel in global public health Andrew Lakoff The …
Davis, C.S., Snider, M.J., King, L., Shukraft, A., Sonda, J.D., Hicks, L., Irvin, L. A Time to Live and a Time to Die: Heterotopian Spatialities and Temporalities in a Pediatric Palliative Care Team (2019) Health Communication, 34 (9), pp. 931-941. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2018.1443262 Abstract The death of a child creates especially poignant feelings and extreme stress, …
Johannes Rytzler, Turning the gaze to the self and away from the self–Foucault and Weil on the matter of education as attention formation (2019) Ethics and Education, 14 (3), pp. 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2019.1617452 Abstract Through writings of Simone Weil and Michel Foucault, the article explores the notion of education as the formation of the attending and …
Paul Michael Garrett, Revisiting ‘The birth of biopolitics’: Foucault’s account of neoliberalism and the remaking of social policy (2019) Journal of Social Policy, 48 (3), pp. 469-487. DOI: 10.1017/S0047279418000582 Abstract The article charts the history and trajectory of neoliberalism provided in Foucault’s 1979 lectures on ‘The Birth of Biopolitics’. In these fascinating contributions, first published …
Péter Kakuk (ed), Bioethics and Biopolitics. Advancing Global Bioethics, vol 8. Springer, Cham, 2017 This volume links three different theoretical approaches that have a common focus on the relationship between biopolitics and bioethics. This collection of papers can be categorized into different domains that are representative of the contemporary usage of biopolitics as a concept. …
Call for articles: Continental Philosophy and Hellenistic Thought Special Section of Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy The Hellenistic schools of thought―most notably, but not exclusively, Stoicism, Academic and Pyrrhonian scepticism, and Epicureanism―have been very influential for many centuries both in antiquity and in modernity. Nonetheless, for a variety of reasons, this influence has never …
Pratt, N., Alderton, J. Producing assessment truths: a Foucauldian analysis of teachers’ reorganisation of levels in English primary schools (2019) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40 (5), pp. 581-597. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2018.1561245 Abstract This article considers a recent policy initiative in assessment in English primary schools (ages 5–11 years) in which curriculum ‘levels’ used by …
