Foucault News

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

Grégoire Canlorbe and Stephen Hicks, Capitalism versus the Philosophers, FEE: Foundation for Economic Education, 2 May 2016 Stephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks is the author of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, which argues that …

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Philippe Raynaud, Michel Foucault, Commentaire 2016/1 (Numéro 153) Premières lignes Dirigée par Frédéric Gros avec le concours de quelques bons spécialistes, l’édition de la Pléiade présente la plupart des livres publiés du vivant de Foucault ou revus par lui avant sa mort (à l’exception regrettable de ses premiers travaux sur la « maladie mentale »), …

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The Deflationary Mind Mark Lilla’s prosecution of radical thinkers in the name of intellectual seriousness can only lead to a flat and lifeless politics. by David Sessions, Jacobin, 27 October 2016 During the 1990s, some of the most prominent Anglo-American interpreters of European intellectual history decided it was time to settle accounts. They brought important …

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Le séminaire “Foucault et la question sociale II” tiendra sa première séance vendredi prochain, le 4 novembre, de 14h à 18h, à l’Université Lille 3, UMR STL, salle D. Corbin (métro Pont-de-Bois) Programme : 14h – Daniele Lorenzini (Paris 1/Columbia University) : Pourquoi la question sociale ? 14h15 – Audrey Benoit (Paris 1/Lille 3) : …

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Sandra Lee Bartky, at the Vanguard of Feminist Philosophy, Dies at 81 By Sam Roberts, New York Times 23 October 2016 Sandra Lee Bartky, an influential feminist philosopher who argued that women were subconsciously submitting to men by accepting an unnatural cultural standard for the ideal female body — what she called the “tyranny of …

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Emmanuel Delille and Marc Kirsch, Natural or interactive kinds ? Les maladies mentales transitoires dans les cours de Ian Hacking au Collège de France (2000–2006) (2016) Revue de Synthese, 137 (1-2), pp. 87-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11873-016-0298-2 Résumé Les concepts de Ian Hacking ont apporté une contribution importante aux débats dans le domaine de la philosophie de la …

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Jocelyn Benoist, Des actes de langage à l’inventaire des énoncés, Archives de Philosophie 2016/1 (Tome 79) Résumé Français L’article essaie de comprendre la notion d’« énoncé » telle que Foucault l’emploie dans L’Archéologie du Savoir. Il situe la perspective de Foucault dans le contexte du débat philosophique et linguistique sur le langage après la seconde …

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Lewis, K. Social justice leadership and inclusion: a genealogy (2016) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48 (4), pp. 324-341. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2016.1210589 Abstract The purpose of this article is to engage in an historical analysis of research about two concepts: social justice leadership and leadership for inclusion. Recent experiences have caused me to wonder about …

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Nicolas Vallois, « Michel Foucault and the history of economic thought », Œconomia, 5-4 | 2015, 461-490. https://doi.org/10.4000/oeconomia.2181 Open access Michel Foucault dedicated a significant part of his works to the study of political economy. In the late 1980s, these analyses attracted the interest of historians of economic thought (Amariglio, 1988, 1900; Birken, 1990). The …

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Ferreira, V.S. Aesthetics of Youth Scenes: From Arts of Resistance to Arts of Existence (2016) Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 24 (1), pp. 66-81. DOI: 10.1177/1103308815595520 Abstract The aesthetic expressions produced and reproduced within post-war spectacular youth (sub)cultures used to be seen as a display of resistance to and subversion of ‘social order’, perceived …

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