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

French philosopher Michel Serres dies at 88 France 24 02/06/2019 See also this link and this link (en français) The philosopher, writer and academic Michel Serres died on Saturday June 1 2019 at the age of 88. His publishing house Le Pommier made the announcement on Saturday evening. “He died peacefully at 7pm, surrounded by …

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Call for papers: Race, Biopolitics and the Genres of the Human Northeast Modern Language Association 51st Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2020 Chair: Nazia Manzoor, University at Albany, SUNY (nmanzoor@albany.edu) What is politics’ relationship with the human? Contemporary politics’ reliance on unequal and uneven distribution of power—characterized by an intersectional relationship among capital, racism, migratory constraints, …

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The Disorder of Discourse Fanny de Chaillé Michel Foucault Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art US Premiere Tue, Sep 17 at 7pm Wed, Sep 18 at 7pm French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926–1984) is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the 20th-century. …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Foucault’s Inaugural lecture at the Collège de France was delivered on 2 December 1970, one week before the beginning of his first course, published as Leçons sur la volonté de savoir and translated as Lectures on the Will to Know. The inaugural lecture was published in French by Gallimard as a…

Arona Moreau, Erratum. Ce n’est pas le néolibéralisme, c’est le capitalisme politique, L’Harmattan. ISBN : 978-2-343-17898-1 • 21 juin 2019 • 288 pages Lire un extrait ERRATUM. La plus grande erreur intellectuelle, critique et analytique commise par la pensée contemporaine reste sans aucun doute l’usage courant voire abusif du mot « néolibéralisme » pour désigner …

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Elizabeth Mary Grierson, Calling for change: A feminist approach to women in art, politics, philosophy and education (2019) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (7), pp. 731-743. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1488215 Abstract Michel Foucault showed by his genealogical method that history is random. It comprises sites of disarray and dispersal. In those sites, Simone de Beauvoir wrote philosophy through …

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Michel Foucault, “Discourse and Truth” and “Parresia”, Chicago University Press, 2019 Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini With an Introduction by Frédéric Gros English edition established by Nancy Luxon The Chicago Foucault Project This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book …

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Gonzalez Rey, F. Subjectivity in debate: Some reconstructed philosophical premises to advance its discussion in psychology (2019) Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 49 (2), pp. 212-234. DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.12200 Abstract The topic of subjectivity has been treated peripherally by philosophy. It has appeared in philosophy not as a specific human phenomenon, but attached to …

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Gaus, N. Philosophy and politics in higher education: What are the roles of intellectual academics in Indonesian higher education? (2019) Qualitative Research Journal, 19 (3), pp. 294-306. DOI: 10.1108/QRJ-12-2018-0008 Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper, which is drawn on Indonesian academic women’s experiences, is to examine the extent to which the aesthetics of existence …

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