Foucault News

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

Paul Patton, Government, rights and legitimacy: Foucault and liberal political normativity, European Journal of Political Theory May 5, 2015 doi: 10.1177/1474885115582077 Abstract One way to characterise the difference between analytic and Continental political philosophy concerns the different roles played by normative and descriptive analysis in each case. This article argues that, even though Michel Foucault’s …

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Hamdi Nabli : “Le discours radical offre une binarisation du monde, il faut un discours alternatif”, Bondy Blog en partenariat avec Liberation, mardi 27 janvier 2015 Par Mathieu Blard Influencé par les théories de Foucault et Baudrillard, Hamdi Nabli, politologue, livre son regard sur la radicalisation, le traitement médiatique et ses conséquences. Rencontre. Vendredi 23 …

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Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation Introduction Videos of this conference ‘Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation’ is a two-year research project investigating the revival of ethical self-cultivation within the European philosophical tradition. The project will host two international conferences and workshops. The first, entitled ‘Hellenistic Ethics from Nietzsche to Foucault’, took place at the …

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Theatre, Performance, Foucault!  One-day symposium hosted by the Theatre, Performance and Philosophy working group of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA)  Saturday, 4th July 2015 King’s College London K0.31 Small Committee Room, Strand London UK WC2R 2LS Registration site Welcome 9:30-10am Welcome, registration and tea/coffee Session 1: Theatre/Foucault/Theatre 10am – 11:30am Mark Robson (University of …

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Estudos Nietzsche: Special Issue on Foucault and Nietzsche, vol.5, no.1, jan./jun. 2014 Estudos Nietzsche is an open access journal. Full PDFs are available. All articles are in Portuguese SUMÁRIO Editorial 1. Editorial v. 5, n. 1 (jan./jun. 2014) Ernani Chaves. Artigos 1. Filosofia da cultura e escrita da história: Notas sobre as relações entre os …

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Foucault and May 1968 Published on 18 Jun 2015 François Ewald (CNAM), Bernard Harcourt (Columbia Law School, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought), and Jesús R. Velasco (LAIC Chair, Columbia University) delve into the influences and effects of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the College de France, Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972). The panelists explore how …

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New issue Foucault Studies Number 19: Disability Foucault Studies is an open access journal and full PDFs of the articles can be found on the website. Table of Contents Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Barbara Cruikshank, Knut Ove Eliassen, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Johanna Oksala, Sven Opitz, Jyoti Puri, Jens Erik Kristensen, Alan Rosenberg, Jeppe …

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Disney, T. Complex spaces of orphan care – a Russian therapeutic children’s community (2015) Children’s Geographies, 13 (1), pp. 30-43. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2013.827874 Abstract Institutions of orphan care are immensely complex spaces imbued with social and cultural norms, and can exhibit intricate power relations and particularly severe examples of surveillance. While there have been numerous excellent …

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Carey, J.L.W. Taking Responsibility for Cloning: Discourses of Care and Knowledge in Biotechnological Approaches to Nonhuman Life (2015) Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 11 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10806-015-9544-0 Abstract This article examines the practice of animal cloning in relation to discourses of care and responsibility, in particular a common cultural interpretation of …

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