Foucault News

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

Delphine Merx, S’écrire soi-même, Implications philosophiques Open access article Résumé Résumé : La notion de « subjectivation » interroge ce processus qui, d’un sujet malléable et à déterminer, fait surgir une certaine constitution du soi, et les moyens de cette formation. Paul Ricœur et Michel Foucault se sont chacun à leur tour penchés sur cette …

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Stephen J. Ball, Living the Neo-liberal University, European Journal of Education, Volume 50, Issue 3, pages 258–261, September 2015 DOI: 10.1111/ejed.12132 Full pdf available on research gate Opening paragraphs ‘Each of my works is a part of my own biography. For one or other reason I had occasion to feel and live those things’ Truth, …

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Harriet Pattison, How to Desire Differently: Home Education as a Heterotopia, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 49, Issue 4, pages 619–637, November 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.12130 Abstract This article explores the co-existence of, and relationship between, alternative education in the form of home education and mainstream schooling. Home education is conceptually subordinate to schooling, relying …

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Quel est l’héritage de Michel Foucault? Sophie Joubert, Avec Frédéric Gros, philosophe, professeur à Sciences Po, coordinateur de la Pléiade Michel Foucault, Radio France Information, Diffusion : vendredi 8 janvier 2016 Podcast Impossible de parler de la folie, de la prison ou de l’histoire de la sexualité sans citer le nom de Michel Foucault. Il …

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Magnus Paulsen Hansen, Non-normative critique. Foucault and pragmatic sociology as tactical re-politicization, European Journal of Social Theory February 2016 vol. 19 no. 1, 127-145 doi: 10.1177/1368431014562705 Abstract The close ties between modes of governing, subjectivities and critique in contemporary societies challenge the role of critical social research. The classical normative ethos of the unmasking researcher …

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Samta P Pandya, Governmentality and guru-led movements in India, Some arguments from the field, European Journal of Social Theory February 2016 vol. 19 no. 1, 74-93 doi: 10.1177/1368431015602355 Abstract The concept of governmentality has a textual and philosophical basis as well as being concerned with what might be called the practices of government. This article …

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Bowen Paulle, Beneath rationalization: Elias, Foucault, and the body,European Journal of Social Theory February 2016 vol. 19 no. 1 39-56 doi: 10.1177/1368431015602355 Abstract Elias and Foucault ended up making the same core discovery about the same fundamental social process, which we term the ‘social constraints towards self-discipline’ process. We show how three distinct biographical and …

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Thamy Ayouch, Psychanalyse et transidentités : hétérotopies, L’Évolution Psychiatrique, Volume 80, Issue 2, April–June 2015, Pages 303–316 doi:10.1016/j.evopsy.2015.01.004 Résumé Objectifs Repenser la filiation psychiatrique de nombre de théorisations analytiques de la « transsexualité », en désigner les points de butée, pour voir si et comment il est possible de penser une psychanalyse de la post-transsexualité. Chercher …

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Ben Golder, Human rights without humanism. Why does Foucault—an avowed anti-humanist—turn to “rights” in his later works?, Originally on the Stanford University Press blog, 27 October 2015. Currently on The Australian Public Law site (October 2025) […] As human rights rise in popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s so too does the work of thinkers …

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