Foucault and Nietzsche: A Critical Encounter (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy) Edited by Joseph Westfall and Alan Rosenberg, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 Foucault’s intellectual indebtedness to Nietzsche is apparent in his writing, yet the precise nature, extent, and nuances of that debt are seldom explored. Foucault himself seems sometimes to claim that his approach is essentially …
Updated bibliographies :: Heterotopian Studies Two updated bibliographies related to heterotopia: General Bibliography gen pdf (updated March 2018) Under topic headings bibliography topic pdf (updated March 2018)
Essay on the death of Hayden White Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, March 9, 2018. The author of Metahistory, one of the most influential books in the humanities over the past four decades, died Monday. Scott McLemee takes him out of the poststructuralist pigeonhole. Pursuing such a line of thought meant turning to sources outside …
Shelley L. Tremain, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, University of Michigan Press, 2017 Addresses misrepresentations of Foucault’s work within feminist philosophy and disability studies, offering a new feminist philosophy of disability Description Accessibility features: The EPUB version includes textual description of images to make visual content accessible to readers with disabilities that affect reading. Foucault …
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My 2017 book Foucault: The Birth of Power is generously reviewed by Audrey Borowski in Politics, Religion & Ideology (requires subscription). Links to other reviews and discussions of this book, and its companion Foucault’s Last Decade are archived here. ?
Ugo Balzaretti, Leben und Macht Eine radikale Kritik am Naturalismus nach Michel Foucault und Georges Canguilhem, Klebebindung (2018) BESCHREIBUNG Das Biologische ist, Lévinas zufolge, zum »Herzen des geistigen Lebens« geworden. Davon zeugt sowohl die zunehmende Bedeutung der Biowissenschaften als auch die Verbreitung biologistischer Menschenbilder. Doch liegt der moderne Biologismus mehr noch in einem subtilen Naturalismus, …
From the House of the Dead review – formidable performances humanise Janáček’s vision of hell | Music | The Guardian Tim Ashley Fri 9 Mar 2018 From the House of the Dead is at the Royal Opera House, London, until 24 March. Box office: 020-7304 4000. Krzysztof Warlikowski’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s From the …
Josh Jones, The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972-2018) | Open Culture, 9 March 2018 Extract Radical Philosophy has published essays and interviews with nearly all of the big names in academic philosophy on the left—from Marxists, to post-structuralists, to post-colonialists, to phenomenologists, …
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Not much is known about Foucault’s time in Hamburg in 1959-60, except that he was working on his translation of Kant’s Anthropology at this time. The preface to History of Madness was also written there. A new piece in German by Rainer Nicolaysen looks at this period in detail, via Foucault…
Ana Sofia Elias and Rosalind Gill, Beauty surveillance: The digital self-monitoring cultures of neoliberalism (2018) European Journal of Cultural Studies, 21 (1), pp. 59-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417705604 Abstract This article argues that ‘beauty apps’ are transforming the arena of appearance politics and foregrounds a theoretical architecture for critically understanding them. Informed by a feminist-Foucaultian framework, it argues …
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