Foucault News

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

Elden, S. (2024). Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France. History of European Ideas, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2391378 ABSTRACT This article discusses an important moment in the career of Alexandre Koyré, and the history of philosophy in France. It looks at the 1951 election of a successor to Étienne Gilson at the Collège de France, for which …

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Stuart Blaney, Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michel Foucault’s ideas on freedom and Jacques Ranciere’s ideas on equality. Building a dialogue between …

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Elden, Stuart. “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity.” Journal of the History of Ideas 85, no. 3 (2024): 571-600. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2024.a933859. Abstract: The biographical links between Michel Foucault and the comparative mythologist and philologist Georges Dumézil have received more attention than their intellectual connections. This article contributes by surveying Foucault’s engagements, from a 1957 radio lecture to …

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Les Temps qui restent Newsletter L’ancien comité de rédaction des Temps Modernes, liquidé par Gallimard en 2018 au lendemain de la disparition de Claude Lanzmann, a réuni un très large collectif international, convaincu qu’une revue généraliste animée par la notion d’engagement a plus de sens que jamais dans le contexte actuel, marqué par des années …

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Giorgi Vachnadze, The Bio-Politics of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies and Eschatological Narratives, Epoché, Issue #73 July 2024 Extract In agreement with Hubert Dreyfus (1972), we could easily say: “The story of artificial intelligence might well begin around 450 B.C.” That won’t give us much beyond words however. That’s not the commitment we can make for …

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Appel | Bourse internationale Imec/Centre Michel Foucault 2025 DATE LIMITE DE RÉCEPTION DES DOSSIERS : 15 novembre 2024 Disparu il y a quarante ans, Michel Foucault continue d’inspirer profondément la pensée contemporaine. L’Imec et le Centre Michel Foucault lancent un appel à candidature pour l’attribution de la quatrième Bourse internationale IMEC/Centre Michel Foucault Ouverte prioritairement …

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Sreenanti Banerjee. Politics of Secularisation, Religious Conversion, and “Saving” the (Hindu) Daughter under Hindutva: Re-reading the Hadiya Court Case. ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies. 2024. Vol. 8(2):193-216. DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.2.0193 Abstract This article charts the different modalities of political transgression that marked an act of religious conversion and inter-faith marriage performed by a Muslim …

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Lautaro Colautti, Una multiplicación, un brote del cuerpo. Cine, cuerpo y política en el pensamiento de Foucault, Journal de Ética & Cine, Volumen 14 | Nro 2 | Julio 2024 https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3770-6874 Lautaro Colautti, Multiplication, An Outbreak of The Body. The Relationship Between Cinema and Politics in Foucault’s thought Resumen En el presente artículo se pretende …

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Colautti, L. (2024). Apropiaciones argentinas de la arqueología foucaultiana. Cuadernos De Filosofía Latinoamericana, 45(131), 116-141. https://doi.org/10.15332/25005375.9805 Lautaro Colautti, Argentinian Theoretical Uses of Foucault’s Archaeology: The Era of “The Forms” and the Postmodern Episteme Resumen (es) Durante la década del ’60, Foucault realiza sus investigaciones histórico-filosóficas bajo el nombre metodológico de arqueología. Este término para referir …

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