Foucault News

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

Sverre Raffnsøe, Morten S Thaning, Marius Gudmand-Hoyer, Michel Foucault: A Research Companion. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 Publication Date: November 2015 Michel Foucault continues to be hugely influential. His diagnoses challenge us to rethink crucial phenomena such as madness, discipline, the human sciences, the state, neoliberalism, sexuality and subject formation. Based on his work in its entirety, …

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Comment lire L’Archéologie du savoir de Michel Foucault ?, Les Études philosophiques, 2015/3 (N° 153) English version Sommaire Baptiste Mélès Page 323 à 326 Présentation Michel Foucault, Texte établi et introduit par Martin Rueff Page 327 à 352 « Introduction » à L’Archéologie du savoir Luca Paltrinieri Page 353 à 376 L’archive comme objet : …

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Michel Foucault : héritages et perspectives en éducation et formation. Le Télémaque, 2015/1 (n° 47) Sommaire Brigitte Frelat-Kahn, Dominique Ottavi, Alain Vergnioux Page 7 à 8 Ouverture Chronique morale Alain Vergnioux Page 9 à 15 La philosophie de François Châtelet Notion Valentina Crispi Page 17 à 30 L’interculturalité Dossier – Michel Foucault : héritages et …

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American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference March 17-20, 2016 — Harvard University Panel: The New Security State: Surveillance, Counter-Surveillance, and Strategies of Resistance Organizers: Carlos Rojas (Duke University) and Belinda Kong (Bowdoin College) Full panel description and submission guidelines can be found here: Deadline for paper submissions is Sept 23 2015 Papers with a foucauldian …

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Kaveh Dastooreh, Vers une sociologie foucaldienne. Réunir l’objectivation et la subjectivation, L’Harmattan, 2015 L’œuvre foucaldienne est aussi une œuvre sociologique. Sa pensée conduit à une pratique autoréflexive de la sociologie. Ce qui rapproche Foucault des sociologues, c’est sa compréhension du sujet à travers un social devenu historique ; cette Histoire nous revient en tant que …

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Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights Ben Golder, Editor (New York: Routledge, 2013. 264 pages.) Reviewed by—Irina Ceric, (Criminology Faculty member, Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Vancouver, October 2014 Re-reading Foucault is an ambitious and mostly successful attempt to answer the question “Where is the law in Foucault and what has he done with it?” and …

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Perret, S. In the name of the nation? The National Award in Narrative Literature, and the democratization of art in Spain (1977–2013) (2015) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 17 p. Article in Press. Abstract This article looks at the history of the National Award in Narrative Literature (El Premio Nacional de Literatura, Modalidad Narrativa) – …

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Launch of The Funambulist Magazine by Léopold Lambert Full PDF of announcement which includes links Editor: Léopold Lambert has written fairly extensively on Foucault on his Funambulist blog. Many of these writings have been collected together as a book The Funambulist Pamphlets, vol.2 Foucault published by Punctum Books in collaboration with the Center for Transformative …

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